Neighborhood groups called for an end to the violence, while curious tourists ventured into to battle-scarred streets to snap pictures of charred car wrecks and cohorts of riot police.

“We wanted to see what has been at the center of the news in the past days,” said Merete Toft, 42, while her family members, who came in from a Copenhagen suburb, posed for a picture in front of police officers.

Small groups of protesters threw rocks at police and set fire to trash bins and barricades overnight Sunday, but the violence did not escalate into the full scale riots of the two previous nights.

“We are very happy that the situation was so quiet,” police spokesman Lars Borg said. “The people who want to demonstrate have been more ... aware that the things they are doing are not the right things to do.”

More than 30 people were arrested near the Christiania hippie enclave after protesters built barricades on a major street and set them on fire around 3 a.m. (0200GMT), police said.

In all, 643 people have been arrested, including 140 foreigners from Europe and the United States, since the clashes started Thursday. They included 20 Swedes, 20 Norwegians and 25 Germans, police said.

The riots began when an anti-terror squad evicted squatters from the so-called Youth House in Copenhagen’s Noerrebro district, a graffiti-sprayed, red-brick building that for years has served as a popular cultural center for anarchists, punk rockers and left-wing groups.

Dozens of leftist sympathizers from neighboring countries joined the protests, which many saw as symbolic of a wider struggle against a capitalist establishment.

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