According to her office, Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, was assaulted on the street in Copenhagen and is now "shocked". The attack happened in a public plaza when a guy approached the victim and struck her. The assailant has been taken into custody. It was described as a "despicable act, which goes against everything we believe in and fight for in Europe" by Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission.
"A guy who was later detained beat Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Friday night at Kultorvet in Copenhagen. The event has surprised the prime minister, the prime minister's office said in a statement, without providing any other information. Police stated they were looking into the incident and that they had taken into custody a guy, but they wouldn't elaborate. A motive has not yet been revealed. Marie Adrian and Anna Ravn, two witnesses, confirmed their presence at the scene to the local daily BT.
The two ladies informed the newspaper that "a man came by in the opposite direction and gave her a hard shove on the shoulder, causing her to fall to the side." Despite the "strong push," they alleged, the prime minister did not make contact with the ground.
They also said that she sat down at a café. Two days before Denmark's voting in the EU election, there is an assault. According to Denmark's TV2, Ms. Frederiksen, the head of the Social Democrats in Denmark, and her party's front-runner, Christel Schaldemose, participated in an election-related event in Europe earlier. The largest party in the coalition government of Denmark is the Social Democrats. Although they continue to top the polls, in recent months their popularity has significantly decreased.
Magnus Heunicke, the Danish Minister of the Environment, said on X: "Mette is obviously startled by the assault. It shocks those of us who are close to her, I must say." EU head Charles Michel expressed his "outrage" on X. "I strongly condemn this cowardly act of aggression," he said. Less than a month has passed since Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot several times while greeting supporters. After he made it through, he had surgery.
Four years before, Ms. Frederiksen, 46, had assumed leadership of the center-left Social Democrats and was appointed prime minister in 2019. She became Denmark's youngest prime minister ever as a result. She and then-President Donald Trump got into a fight shortly after she rejected his suggestion that the US purchase Greenland.
Mr. Trump referred to her as "nasty" when she branded the idea of a land purchase of this kind "absurd".
A panel looking at her government's decision to slaughter millions of mink during the Covid outbreak severely criticized Ms. Frederiksen in 2022.
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