A man has been sentenced to four months behind bars and a six-year entry ban from Denmark for attacking Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in June.
“We have found you guilty of striking the Prime Minister on the right shoulder, knocking the Prime Minister out of place,” the judge said on Wednesday in the Copenhagen District Court ruling, according to Danish media reports.
The 39-year-old attacked Frederiksen on a street in Copenhagen on June 7 this year, days before the European Parliament election.
The prime minister’s office said in a statement after the assault that the man “caused minor whiplash” and that the Danish leader was “shaken by the incident.” The police said after the attack that the man was likely intoxicated and the attack not politically motivated.
The man — a Polish national — was convicted by the court of committing violence against an official in office. He must pay the court costs and will remain in custody until his sentence is over, and then be deported from Denmark, the court said.
He decided not to appeal the court’s decision.
Politico
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