A 39-year outdated man who assaulted Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen on Friday inflicting her to undergo a neck harm was sentenced on Saturday to 12 days in custody, Danish police stated.
The assault came about in a sq. within the metropolis centre on Friday when a person walked as much as the prime minister and hit her.
Frederiksen’s workplace stated the incident had left the politician “shocked” and struggling a minor whiplash harm.
All of the prime minister’s official occasions on Saturday have been cancelled, her workplace added on Saturday. 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.
Frederiksen, was in a position to stroll away and had no outward indicators of hurt after the assault, Soren Kjergaard, an area coffee-shop employee, informed Reuters after seeing her being escorted away by safety.
Copenhagen police stated it didn’t suppose that the person, who has denied wrongdoing, was politically motivated in his act.
“In mild of the truth that the accused has no connection to Denmark, there’s a threat of escape,” the choose on the Copenhagen Metropolis courtroom stated as one cause for the custodial sentence, in line with broadcaster DR.
Several EU leaders condemned the incident, which occurred simply three weeks after Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was significantly injured in an assassination try.
“My good good friend and Danish colleague Mette Frederiksen was attacked on the street final night time in Copenhagen. That is utterly unacceptable and is an assault on our open, democratic societies,” Norway Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere informed information company NTB.
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Fee president wrote on X on Friday: “I used to be so shocked on the information of you being assaulted tonight. I condemn this despicable act which works towards every part we consider and battle for in Europe. I want you power and braveness – I do know you’ve got loads of each.”