A Polish man has been sentenced to 4 months in jail for punching Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in the shoulder; the man also confessed to separate charges including sexual harassment.
A Polish man on Wednesday was sentenced to four months in jail for assaulting the Danish prime minister as well as separate sexual harassment charges. He will also be deported and banned from returning to Denmark for the next six years. The unidentified 39-year-old man, held in pretrial custody since the assault, has been charged with punching Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's right shoulder with a clenched fist, causing her to lose her balance but not fall.
The Copenhagen District Court issued the sentencing, which the defendant didn't appeal. The court said the assault 'emphasized the nature of the violence and that the violence against the prime minister occurred in connection with her performance of her duties as prime minister.
In May, a candidate from Germany’s center-left Social Democrats was beaten and seriously injured while campaigning. In Slovakia, the campaign was overshadowed by an attempt to assassinate populist Prime Minister Robert Fico on May 15, sending shockwaves through the nation and reverberating throughout Europe. Fico was shot in the abdomen and seriously wounded. The suspect was immediately arrested and faces terror charges.
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