The Copenhagen District Court sentenced a Polish citizen to four months in prison and imposed on him an entry ban for six years for assaulting Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in June, local media reported on Wednesday.
In a verdict rendered by a unanimous jury, the Copenhagen District Court convicted the man for violence against an official in office after finding him guilty of hitting Prime Minister Frederiksen on her shoulder. The court didn’t reveal the convicted man’s identity or name, but according to local media, he is a 39-year-old man from Poland who has been living in Denmark for five years. Additionally, The court found the defendant guilty of several other crimes that are not related to the assault on the prime minister. This includes embezzlement and cheating with mortgages.
In its ruling, the Danish court pointed out that the defendant attacked the prime minister while being fully aware of her identity. A testimony of the prime minister’s bodyguard confirmed the aggressive behavior of the aggressor on the day of the attack.
In addition to the four-month imprisonment sentence, the court ordered an entry ban against the convicted man. He will be deported after serving his sentence and won’t be able to enter Denmark for six years.
The Polish national was convicted for the attack that occurred on June 7, when the Danish prime minister was assaulted in the streets of Copenhagen. A man approached Mette Frederiksen in Kultorvet Square in Copenhagen and punched her on her right shoulder with a closed fist, which caused her to lose her balance. The Copenhagen police immediately arrested the attacker and placed him under pretrial custody.
When the assault took place, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was campaigning for the Social Democratic Party’s lead candidate, Christel Schaldemose, for the EU parliament elections. The reported attack was not linked to the EU’s parliament elections but occurred a few weeks after the attack against Slovakia’s prime minister ahead of the European elections.
