A man has assaulted and beaten Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on a street in Copenhagen, Danish broadcaster TV2 reported.
The assailant has been arrested, according to reports, which also said the Social Democrat leader was “shocked” by the incident.
It comes two days before Danes head to the polls in the EU election.
Violence has become a theme across Europe during the campaign. Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is recovering from an attempted assassination by a gunman, while Social Democrat MEP Matthias Ecke was beaten up while campaigning in Germany.
A politician from the far-right Alternative for Germany party was stabbed on Tuesday by a suspect wielding a box cutter in Mannheim in the country’s southwest, according to police.
