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Denmark’s High Minister Mette Frederiksen is pictured in Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 5, 2024.
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Danish High Minister Mette Frederiksen was once attacked through a person, who has since been arrested, within the capital town of Copenhagen on Friday, her administrative center stated in a commentary to The Gentleman Report.
“High Minister Mette Frederiksen was once hit through a person Friday night on Kultorvet [public square] in Copenhagen. The person was once due to this fact arrested,” the high minister’s administrative center stated.
It added that Frederiksen “is stunned through the incident” and there was once no additional remark. It’s unclear if the high minister was once harm within the attack.
Danish Minister of Setting Magnus Heunicke referred to as for nationwide cohesion after the assault, pronouncing everybody has a duty to seem after each and every different without reference to “political disagreements, election campaigns.”
“One thing like this will have to now not occur in our gorgeous, protected and loose nation,” he stated on X. “That is unpleasant and unacceptable. Let’s display that Denmark is far better.”
Ecu politicians expressed surprise within the aftermath of the assault.
“Deeply stunned through the outrageous assault on my colleague and pal, High Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen,” Latvian High Minister Evika Siliņa stated in a publish on X.
“All our ideas are with you and your family members. Wishing you a fast restoration,” she added.
Ecu Fee President Ursula von der Leyen condemned the assault, calling it a “despicable act, which works towards the whole lot we imagine in and battle for in Europe.” She went on to pray the high minister power and braveness, pronouncing she has a lot of each.
Denmark is because of vote within the Ecu Union elections on Sunday.
Frederiksen, the chief of Denmark’s center-left Socialist Democratic birthday celebration, has served as high minister since 2019.
Her assault comes weeks after Slovakian High Minister Robert Fico was once shot and wounded in what was once the primary main assassination try on a Ecu political chief for greater than twenty years. Political analysts and lawmakers stated on the time that revealed an an increasing number of febrile and polarized political local weather each in Slovakia and throughout Europe.
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