Mette Frederiksen ‘shocked’ by incident, her office says, two days before country’s European elections
’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen walked away following an assault by a man in central Copenhagen on Friday and had no outward signs of harm, a local resident told Reuters.
“Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was beaten on Friday evening at Kultorvet in Copenhagen by a man who was subsequently arrested. The Prime Minister is shocked by the incident,” her office said in a statement without giving further detail. Police said on social media platform X they had arrested a man and were investigating the incident but declined to give further detail.
“She seemed a little stressed,” Soren Kjergaard, who works as a barista on the square, told Reuters after seeing the prime minister being escorted away by security following the assault.Giorgia Meloni: The Italian Eurosceptic leader turned potential Brussels queenmakerDanish Minister of Environment Magnus Heunicke said on X: “Mette is naturally shocked by the attack. I must say that it shakes all of us who are close to her.
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