Unemployed slackers in Denmark are rioting over their eviction from an abandoned building, and the violence is spreading as “youths” from other European countries flock to Copenhagen to join in the fun: Denmark braced for more violent protests. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police searched homes in the Danish capital on Saturday for activists involved in street clashes that began when police evicted squatters from an abandoned building that has served as a center for anarchists, leftists and punk rockers.

Two nights of violence between police and youths protesting the eviction have turned parts of the Danish capital into a battlefield strewn with burning cars and shattered glass.

Two new demonstrations started Saturday afternoon, with hundreds of people marching peacefully toward Copenhagen’s main square, Danish media reported.

As the smoke and tear gas cleared Saturday morning, police said 188 people were arrested overnight, bringing the total number of arrests to about 400 since the riots started on Thursday. …

Police said foreign activists from Sweden, Norway and Germany joined hundreds of Danish youth, hurling cobblestones at riot police and setting cars on fire. In a sign the Danish youth expected foreign help, the Web page of “Ungdomshuset,” or the youth house, posted a warning in English that Danish police had increased border controls.

“This is a display of anger and rage after more than seven years of struggle to keep what is ours,” Jan, a 22-year-old activist who said he has been coming to the building for the last 10 years, told The Associated Press by telephone. He declined to give his last name, saying that was the norm among the people frequenting the building.