The Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksenwas attacked this Friday in the middle of the street in a square from the center of Copenhagen by a man who has already been arrested, as reported by the Minister of the Environment, Magnus Heunicke, on his social networks.

“Mette naturally She is surprised by the attack. I must say that it shakes all of us who are close to her. Something like this should not happen in our beautiful, safe and free country,” said Minister Heunicke.

The Prime Minister’s Office has confirmed the veracity of the incident to the Danish press, although at the moment it has declined to comment further on the matter and it is unknown if Frederiksen has been injured. The police have already arrested the alleged aggressor, as Heunicke has pointed out.

“Regardless of political disagreements, the electoral campaign, etc., This is ugly and unacceptable. Let’s show that Denmark is much better,” added the aforementioned minister, who has called for citizen responsibility.

This incident occurs in the run-up to the European elections, which are being held on Sunday in Denmark. The Social Democratic Party chaired by Frederiksen aspires to win the elections

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Some of the members of his government have already reacted to this attack, such as the Minister of Finance, who has called the attack “terrible” and has stated that what has happened is “deeply serious and reprehensible.” For his part, the Minister of Culture has indicated that “any attack on an elected politician It is an attack on all democracy“.

The leader of the opposition Denmark Democrats also wanted to speak out and denounced that “democracy is a vulnerable dimension if we do not take good care of it.” “It is completely reprehensible to resort to violence“, he said in X.

The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, has called the attack “appalling” and has noted that “violence has no place in politics. Stay strong, Mette.”

The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, He also wanted to express his support for the Danish Prime Minister through a comment he published on his X account, where condemns “violence”: “The attack he suffered tonight is an attack against all of us who believe in a Europe of freedom, tolerance and peace. I have sent him my support and that of the Spanish citizens in these very difficult times. Violence has no place in the EU,” he wrote.