Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has been assaulted by a person in central Copenhagen earlier as we speak.
Police stated on social media platform X they’d arrested a person and have been investigating the incident however declined to present additional element.
Her workplace stated in an announcement: ‘Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was overwhelmed on Friday night at Kultorvet (sq., purple.) in Copenhagen by a person who was subsequently arrested. The Prime Minister is shocked by the incident.’
A neighborhood, Soren Kjergaard, who works as a barista on the sq., noticed the prime minister being escorted away by safety following the assault.
She claimed the Prime Minister was unscathed within the assault and and had no outward indicators of hurt, though she ‘appeared somewhat pressured’.
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen who has been assaulted by a person in central Copenhagen earlier as we speak
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a Nordic summit, in Stockholm, on Friday, Could 31, 2024
The assault comes two days earlier than Danes head to the polls within the EU election and simply three weeks after Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was critically injured in an assassination try.
Mr Fico, 59, was shot within the stomach as he greeted supporters final month exterior a cultural centre within the city of Handlova, almost 85 miles north-east of the capital Bratislava.
Video footage confirmed the Slovak premier strategy folks gathered at barricades and attain out to shake palms as a person stepped ahead, prolonged his arm and fired 5 rounds earlier than being tackled and arrested.
Her later underwent two hours of surgical procedure to take away useless tissue from his gunshot wounds.
