The Prime Minister’s Office has just released a press release that includes excerpts from Mette Frederiksen’s medical records. It states that the prime minister has sustained a “contusion in the right shoulder, as well as a minor cervical column distortion (whiplash).” The records are dated June 7, 2024, and according to the Prime Minister’s Office, they were prepared by an orthopedic surgical on-call doctor at Rigshospitalet, a major hospital in Denmark.
This medical assessment follows an incident on the same day when Mette Frederiksen was attacked on the shoulder by a 39-year-old man at Kultorvet. Earlier on Thursday, the 39-year-old’s defense attorney presented a different medical assessment in the Copenhagen City Court, dated June 17. According to this assessment, Mette Frederiksen did not suffer from whiplash but rather from “common tenderness in the arm and shoulder.” This observation was presented by defense attorney Henrik Karl Nielsen, thus contradicting the Prime Minister’s earlier statement on June 8 that the attack had resulted in a minor whiplash.
With the latest update from the Prime Minister’s Office, it is confirmed that according to an on-call doctor at the orthopedic surgical department at Rigshospitalet, there was indeed a minor whiplash involved in the incident.