The Danish court in Frederiksberg has decreed this Saturday preventive detention, until June 20, for a Polish citizen, 39 years old by attack the Danish Prime Minister this Friday in the center of CopenhagenMette Frederiksen, in what police described as an “isolated and spontaneous act.”

“We see it as an isolated and spontaneous act“, and at this moment we do not have as a hypothesis of our investigation that it was a planned attack against the prime minister,” Copenhagen Police Inspector Trine Møller stated to the ‘Ritzau’ agency after the hearing with restrictions held. this Saturday.

The individual, accused of assault against a public official, denied the charges during the hearing, and according to the police report, he was clearly influenced by alcohol and other drugs when he was arrested, a minute after hitting Frederiksen in the arm with his fist and pushing her. In fact, some witnesses assured that the prime minister did not fall to the ground. A doctor defined the suspect as mentally unbalanced.

Frederiksen was treated overnight on Friday at the Kingdom Hospital in Copenhagen where she was diagnosed with “mild whiplash,” according to the social democratic leader’s office. In fact, due to the injury this Saturday, the prime minister’s planned participation in events in Herlev, Rødovre, Roskilde, Holbæk and Slagelse has been cancelled.

During the interrogation also held on Friday night, the individual, who He has been living in Denmark for a few months., admitted having recognized Frederiksen and said he did not remember much of what happened, but denied hitting her. In his statement this Saturday before the judge, the individual, who needed an interpreter, showed his sympathy for Frederiksen and assured that she was a “very good” prime minister.

“At the moment our main hypothesis is not that it was a politically motivated act. We have no further comments on the case,” the Police had stated on their account on the social network X. The incident has provoked numerous reactions of condemnation and solidarity with the attack by members of the Danish Government and the leaders of the main local political parties and the institutions of the European Union.

Frederiksen, 46, has held the head of government since June 2019: the first term, at the head of a center-left coalition; and since December 2022, at the head of a center executive with two right-wing forces. In fact, his party finds himself a winner in Denmarkaccording to surveys that estimate the results of the European elections that will be held this Sunday.