Assault on Danish PM Mette Frederiksen: Suspect to face judge for questioning

Mette FrederiksenCopenhagen: Danish police mentioned on Saturday a 39-year-old man would seem in entrance of a decide 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 Occasion and prime minister since 2019, was shocked after being overwhelmed by a person at Kultorvet sq. in Copenhagen on Friday, her workplace mentioned in an announcement on Friday.

The prime minister was in a position to stroll away and had no outward indicators of hurt after the assault, Soren Kjergaard, who works as a barista in central Copenhagen, informed mediapersons after seeing her being escorted away by safety. Police mentioned the person can 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.