Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark was attacked in a busy sq. in Copenhagen on Friday night in an assault that left her “shaken,” her workplace mentioned, although she was in a position to stroll away. Police mentioned that they had made an arrest.
“We’ve a suspect in custody, and we are actually investigating the matter,” the Copenhagen Police mentioned, with out commenting additional. The motive for the assault is unclear.
The prime minister’s workplace launched a press release saying she had been “crushed,” a number of media retailers reported, nevertheless it was unclear what accidents she had sustained.
A number of Danish politicians expressed their concern over the incident.
“Mette is of course shocked by the assault,” Magnus Heunicke, Denmark’s minister for the setting, wrote on X. “I need to say, it shakes all of us who’re near her.”
Ms. Frederiksen, 46, has been prime minister since 2019. She leads the center-left Social Democrats.
The assault got here simply days earlier than Danes will vote within the European Union elections.
The assault additionally resonated past Denmark’s borders, with the prime ministers of Finland and Sweden sending their help. It occurred not even a month after Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia was shot and badly wounded in an assassination try he survived.
Ms. Frederiksen was in Normandy on Thursday and gave a speech throughout commemorations for the eightieth anniversary of D-Day. She honored the sacrifices of Danish troopers and extolled the virtues of freedom, saying: “Freedom isn’t a legacy. Freedom is a combat, a battle, a wrestle. Daily. Each hour. Proper now.”
Kaly Soto contributed reporting.
