Danish PM ‘not doing great’ four days after assault in Copenhagen

Frederiksen, who became Denmark’s youngest prime minister in 2019, has not appeared in public since the attack. Photograph: Mads Claus Rasmussen/EPA

Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has said she needed time out with her family to recover from the shock of being assaulted on a Copenhagen square last week and, while she has continued working, she is still “not feeling great”.

In her first interview since last Friday’s attack, in which she suffered minor whiplash, Frederiksen, 46, told the public broadcaster DR that she was still suffering pain in her head, neck and shoulder, but the psychological shock had affected her most.