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• Numerous world leaders condemned the aggression suffered by the Danish president

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was attacked in central Copenhagen, inflicting her to endure delicate whiplash. In line with a press release from the Danish authorities workplace, a person pushed the Danish president on June 7, inflicting her to stagger, though she didn’t fall to the bottom.

The announcement said that the prime minister was transferred to the Rigshospitalet hospital for a check-up following the assault.

Frederiksen is in good situation, however is shaken by the incident, added the official textual content cited by the Ritzau information company.

The anticipated participation of the prime minister in acts in Herlev, Rødovre, Roskilde, Holbæk and Slagelse have been canceled attributable to prevention.

The 46-year-old Prime Minister of Denmark has been head of presidency since June 2019.

Prime Minister’s attacker

Danish police reported that the alleged attacker, aged 39, was arrested instantly following the assault and delivered to justice.

Danish authorities didn’t present additional particulars concerning the assault or its doable motives.

“On the courtroom listening to, the decide will determine whether or not there are grounds to order preventive detention in opposition to the person who was detained following the episode,” the Danish police mentioned within the assertion.

Reactions from world leaders

The incident provoked quite a few reactions of condemnation and solidarity with the sufferer from members of the Danish authorities and leaders of establishments of the European Union (EU) and the world.

“This isn’t Denmark. We don’t assault our prime ministers. I ship my finest ideas to Mette,” the vp and Minister of Protection, the liberal Troels Lund Poulsen, wrote on his X social community account (previously Twitter).

Leaders of different international locations, such because the prime ministers of Portugal and Italy and the president of the federal government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, additionally despatched messages of help to Frederiksen.

“Mette Frederiksen is a dedicated chief, a beautiful particular person and an ideal buddy. The assault that she suffered tonight is an assault in opposition to all of us who consider in a Europe of freedom, tolerance and peace,” Sánchez revealed on her account on the social community X.

The leaders of the primary EU establishments additionally condemned the assault in opposition to the Prime Minister of Denmark, the social democrat Mette Frederiksen.

European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen condemned the assault, calling it “despicable.”

The president of the European Council, Charles Michel, was “outraged” by the aggression dedicated and condemned the act.

“All my ideas are with you and your loved ones, expensive Mette, and I hope you overcome this horrendous assault quickly,” Michel expressed on social networks.

The EU Excessive Consultant for Overseas Affairs and Safety Coverage, Josep Borrell, additionally rejected the aggression.

“Shocked by one other bodily assault in opposition to a democratically elected chief. I condemn it. My solidarity with Mette Frederiksen. Violence is not going to decide our political choices,” Borrell said in a message broadcast by means of his X account.

Different assaults in opposition to leaders within the EU

The assault on the Danish Prime Minister joins different assaults just lately suffered by European politicians.

Essentially the most critical occurred on Might 5, when the Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fico, was shot a number of occasions by a 71-year-old retired poet essential of his authorities, as he left an occasion within the city of Handlová.

In latest weeks the victims have been largely politicians from Germany, the place in the beginning of April, the MEP and essential social democratic candidate from Saxony within the European elections, Matthias Ecke, was severely injured in Dresden when he was attacked whereas posting election posters.

Days later, the pinnacle of the Financial system and former mayor of Berlin, the social democrat Franziska Giffey, was injured when she was forcefully hit on the pinnacle by a person.

Martin Schmidt, deputy of the far-right Alliance for Germany within the regional parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, was additionally injured when he was attacked with a glass ashtray within the metropolis of Schwerin.

On June 5, a candidate from the identical celebration within the municipal elections within the metropolis of Mannheim within the state of Baden-Württemberg was attacked with a knife.

With data from EFE.

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