Reuters :
A Polish man will stand trial in Denmark on Tuesday over an attack on Prime Minister (PM) Mette Frederiksen in central Copenhagen in early June, facing charges of assaulting a public official.
The incident, which took place two days before European Parliament elections, left Frederiksen with a minor neck injury and led her to cancel several engagements while warning of rising aggression in public.
The attack in Denmark happened three weeks after Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was seriously injured in an assassination attempt and just over a month before the shooting of US presidential contender Donald Trump.
The 39-year-old man who is accused of punching Frederiksen said in preliminary questioning that he was not guilty of the offence. He said he could not remember much from the episode due to intoxication, according to police.
