"Apart from that, the Prime Minister is safe and sound, but she
is shocked by the incident," it said, adding that Frederiksen
had been taken to hospital for a check-up following the incident
late on Friday.
All the Prime Minister's official events on Saturday have been
cancelled, her office said.
Danish police said on Saturday a 39-year-old man would appear in
front of a judge for preliminary questioning in relation to an
assault on the prime minister.
Police said the man would be brought before the Copenhagen City
Court for questioning at around 1 p.m. (1100 GMT), but declined
to provide more detail.
Frederiksen, was able to walk away and had no outward signs of
harm after the assault, Soren Kjergaard, who works as a barista
in central Copenhagen, told Reuters after seeing her being
escorted away by security.
Neither the police nor the prime minister's office said anything
about the man's motive or whether he had carried a weapon.
The assault comes two days before Danes head to the polls in the
European Union election.
A month ago, three German politicians suffered assaults ahead of
European Parliament and district council elections and more
attacks followed earlier this week.
Several EU leaders condemned the incident, which happened just
three weeks after Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico was
seriously injured in an assassination attempt.
"The attack on Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is an
intolerable act of violence that represents an attack on the
heart of democratic values," Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia
Meloni said on X.
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president said on
X:
"I was so shocked at the news of you being assaulted tonight. I
condemn this despicable act which goes against everything we
believe and fight for in Europe. I wish you strength and courage
- I know you have plenty of both."
(Reporting by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen, Stine Jacobsen and Louise
RasmussenEditing by Tomasz Janowski)
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