It is not clear if Mette Frederiksen was hurt in the incident, in which a man is alleged to have shoved her.
A man has assaulted Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in central Copenhagen, local media reported.
Authorities later said the man will appear at a pre-trial custody hearing at Copenhagen District Court at 12pm BST.Two eyewitnesses, Anna Ravn and Marie Adrian, told the daily BT that they saw a man walking toward Ms Frederiksen and then “pushing her hard on the shoulder so she was shoved aside”. They stressed that the premier did not fall down.
The Prime Minister’s office told the Danish state broadcaster DR on Friday that Ms Frederiksen was “shocked” by what happened.Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that “an attack on a democratically elected leader is also an attack on our democracy”, while Charles Michel, president of the European Council, condemned on X what he called a “cowardly act of aggression”.
Ms Frederiksen has been campaigning with the Social Democrats’ EU lead candidate, Christel Schaldemose.It is not clear if Ms Frederiksen was hurt during the incident
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