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James BROOKS

Danish PM's Attacker Gets Jail Term, To Be Deported

Frederiksen was not called to the court in Copenhagen to testimony (Credit: AFP)

A Danish court on Wednesday handed a Polish man a four-month prison sentence and ordered him deported for punching the country's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in June.

The 39-year-old, who Danish authorities have ruled cannot be named in the media, was immediately apprehended after the assault on June 7 in a Copenhagen square.

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