‘I am not quite myself,’ says Danish prime minister in first TV interview since assault

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Mette Frederiksen said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am not quite myself&comma;” but will continue to work mostly from her office&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Frederiksen&comma; who suffered minor whiplash after a man had assaulted her Friday in central Copenhagen&comma; said in her first reaction the following day that she was ok&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Frederiksen gave no details of the assault on Tuesday when she spoke in a television interview&comma; but said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;it was very intimidating when someone crosses the last physical limit you have&period; There is some shock and surprise in that”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said it was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;probably also an accumulation of many other things&period; Threats over a long period of time on social media have gotten worse&comma; especially after the war in the Middle East&period; Shouting in public space&period; Maybe that was the final straw&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As a human being&comma; it feels like an attack on me&comma;” Ms Frederiksen said in the 10-minute-long interview&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But I have no doubt that it was the prime minister that was hit&period; In this way&comma; it also becomes a kind of attack on all of us&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I would rather have a Denmark where the prime minister can bicycle to work without being worried&comma;” she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am Mette at my core&comma; but I am the country’s prime minister&period; Thus&comma; an institution that you must not attack like the police&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A 39-year-old Polish man living in Denmark was arrested and held in pre-trial custody until June 20th on preliminary charges of violence against a person in public service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;183496" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-183496" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;06&sol;87AE7306-D7FA-4732-B414-A4BCF696D244&period;webp" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"426" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-183496" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-183496" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Danish Premier Mette Frederiksen and her husband Bo Tengberg arrive at the official international ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>In Denmark&comma; preliminary charges are one step short of formal ones but allow authorities to keep criminal suspects in custody during an investigation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The motive for the assault was unclear&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In court&comma; the suspect who was not identified&comma; reportedly praised Ms Frederiksen as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a really good prime minister&comma;” and investigators suspect he was under the influence of drugs and intoxicated at the time of the incident that happened just before 6pm local time on Friday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Media reports said the man walked towards Ms Frederiksen and pushed her hard while she was passing one of Copenhagen’s main squares&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He hit her upper right arm with a clenched fist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Frederiksen has not appeared in public since the attack and has not participated in public party events as the results of Sunday’s European Parliament elections started coming in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her party&comma; 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