Danish PM's attacker gets jail term and is to be deported
A Danish court has handed a four-month prison sentence to a man who punched Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and ordered him deported following the term's completion. The 39-year-old Polish man, who has lived in Denmark for five years, assaulted Frederiksen in a Copenhagen square in June, following a spate of attacks on politicians across the spectrum ahead of EU Parliament elections.
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00:00We have to send the same signal as other criminal cases, namely that we through punishment send a signal to both the one who is convicted, but also to the rest of the surrounding people, so that they know that they are not the only ones who are being punished.
00:20We have to send the same signal as other criminal cases, namely that we through punishment send a signal to both the one who is convicted, but also to the rest of the surrounding people, so that they know that they are not the only ones who are being punished.
00:50It was harder than I had feared, but that's the decision.
00:55The court has reasoned that he knew it was a prime minister. He only approached her because she was a prime minister.
01:04And that makes sense that, of course, a prime minister has a right to be on the streets in Copenhagen like everybody else.
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