COPENHAGEN: Danish police mentioned on Saturday a 39-year-old man would seem in entrance of a choose for preliminary questioning in relation to an assault on the nation’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in central Copenhagen late on Friday.
Frederiksen, chief of Denmark’s Social Democratic Get together and prime minister since 2019, was shocked after being crushed by a person at Kultorvet sq. in Copenhagen on Friday, her workplace mentioned in a press release on Friday.
The prime minister was capable of stroll away and had no outward indicators of hurt after the assault, Soren Kjergaard, who works as a barista in central Copenhagen, instructed Reuters after seeing her being escorted away by safety.
Police mentioned the person could be introduced earlier than the Copenhagen Metropolis Court docket for questioning at round 1 p.m. (1100 GMT), however declined to offer extra element.
Neither the police nor the prime minister’s workplace mentioned something in regards to the man’s motive or whether or not he had carried a weapon.
The assault comes two days earlier than Danes head to the polls within the European Union election.
A month in the past, three German politicians suffered assaults forward of European Parliament and district council elections and extra assaults adopted earlier this week.
A number of EU leaders condemned the incident, which occurred simply three weeks after Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was significantly injured in an assassination try.
“The assault on Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is an insupportable act of violence that represents an assault on the guts of democratic values,” Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni mentioned on X.
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Fee president mentioned on X, “I used to be so shocked on the information of you being assaulted tonight. I condemn this despicable act which matches in opposition to every part we imagine and struggle for in Europe. I want you power and braveness – I do know you will have loads of each.”
Frederiksen, chief of Denmark’s Social Democratic Get together and prime minister since 2019, was shocked after being crushed by a person at Kultorvet sq. in Copenhagen on Friday, her workplace mentioned in a press release on Friday.
The prime minister was capable of stroll away and had no outward indicators of hurt after the assault, Soren Kjergaard, who works as a barista in central Copenhagen, instructed Reuters after seeing her being escorted away by safety.
Police mentioned the person could be introduced earlier than the Copenhagen Metropolis Court docket for questioning at round 1 p.m. (1100 GMT), however declined to offer extra element.
Neither the police nor the prime minister’s workplace mentioned something in regards to the man’s motive or whether or not he had carried a weapon.
The assault comes two days earlier than Danes head to the polls within the European Union election.
A month in the past, three German politicians suffered assaults forward of European Parliament and district council elections and extra assaults adopted earlier this week.
A number of EU leaders condemned the incident, which occurred simply three weeks after Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was significantly injured in an assassination try.
“The assault on Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is an insupportable act of violence that represents an assault on the guts of democratic values,” Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni mentioned on X.
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Fee president mentioned on X, “I used to be so shocked on the information of you being assaulted tonight. I condemn this despicable act which matches in opposition to every part we imagine and struggle for in Europe. I want you power and braveness – I do know you will have loads of each.”
