{"id":71530,"date":"2024-06-12T19:13:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/denmarks-prime-minister-says-shes-not-quite-myself-after-assault\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:13:12","slug":"denmarks-prime-minister-says-shes-not-quite-myself-after-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/denmarks-prime-minister-says-shes-not-quite-myself-after-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark\u2019s Prime Minister Says She\u2019s \u2018Not Quite Myself\u2019 After Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/12\/multimedia\/12xp-denmark-mgwq\/12xp-denmark-mgwq-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Denmark\u2019s Prime Minister Says She\u2019s \u2018Not Quite Myself\u2019 After Assault\" title=\"Denmark\u2019s Prime Minister Says She\u2019s \u2018Not Quite Myself\u2019 After Assault\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Four days after being assaulted in a busy Copenhagen square, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark said she was carrying out her duties as leader but still recovering, in her first interview since the assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI am not quite myself yet,\u201d said Ms. Frederiksen <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dr.dk\/nyheder\/politik\/live-mette-frederiksen-i-foerste-interview-efter-overfald-og-daarligt-resultat-til\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">in an interview<\/a> on Tuesday with DR, Denmark\u2019s public broadcaster, adding that she had stepped back from some activities against the backdrop of elections for the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/10\/world\/europe\/european-parliament-elections-key-takeaways.html\" title=\"\">European Parliament<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Frederiksen said that she had needed time with family after the assault, which left her shaken and concerned about the tenor of political debate. \u201cIt is very intimidating that there is someone who crosses the last physical limit that you have,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Frederiksen, the leader of the center-left Social Democrats, was in Kultorvet, a busy square in Copenhagen\u2019s Old Town, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/07\/world\/europe\/denmark-prime-minister-attacked-mette-frederiksen.html\" title=\"\">when she was assaulted<\/a> on Friday. The police said that a man hit the prime minister with a clenched fist on her right upper arm, according to DR, and her office said that she had sustained minor whiplash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The police in Copenhagen arrested a 39-year-old man in relation to the assault, and have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KobenhavnPoliti\/status\/1799426205881676079\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that they do not believe it was politically motivated. The man pleaded not guilty to preliminary charges of violence against a public servant in court on Saturday, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dr.dk\/nyheder\/indland\/dommer-faengsler-mand-overfald-paa-statsminister\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to DR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The man said he did not disagree with Ms. Frederiksen\u2019s political positions and called her a \u201creally good prime minister,\u201d DR reported. A prosecutor in court said it was probable that the man had been under the influence of alcohol and drugs, according to the Copenhagen police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe court found that there was reasonable suspicion that he knew who the prime minister was,\u201d the Copenhagen police said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that the man would remain in custody until June 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Attacks on lawmakers in Denmark are rare. Ms. Frederiksen said that the country had been proud to be one where prime ministers felt safe enough to cycle to work. But she expressed concerns about the state of political debate in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAs a human being, it feels like an attack on me,\u201d she said, in response to a question about whether the assault was an attack on democracy. But she added that she had \u201cno doubt\u201d that she was hit because she had been recognized as the prime minister. \u201cIn this way, it also becomes a form of attack on all of us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is no place for any kind of violence in our society,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Frederiksen, 46, was the youngest person to become Danish prime minister when she took office in 2019, and her center-left coalition won a second term in 2022. The assault drew condemnation from other leaders, including the prime ministers of Finland and Sweden and Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission. It happened a month after an assassination attempt on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/05\/world\/europe\/slovakia-prime-minister-robert-fico-speech.html\" title=\"\">Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia<\/a>, who was shot and wounded but survived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Frederiksen also said she was heeding a \u201cwarning\u201d from Danish voters in the European Union elections, in which the Social Democrats won three seats but came in second place to a left-wing party, S.F.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/12\/world\/europe\/denmark-prime-minister-attack-interview.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four days after being assaulted in a busy Copenhagen square, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark said she was carrying out her duties as leader but still recovering, in her first interview since the assault. \u201cI am not quite myself yet,\u201d said Ms. Frederiksen in an interview on Tuesday with DR, Denmark\u2019s public broadcaster, adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/12\/multimedia\/12xp-denmark-mgwq\/12xp-denmark-mgwq-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4760,63937,2124,8088,420],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71532,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71530\/revisions\/71532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}