International
In prison the aggressor of the Danish Prime Minister, who perpetrated “a spontaneous act”
The Frederiksberg court (Denmark) decreed pre-trial detention this Saturday, until June 20, for a 39-year-old Polish citizen for assaulting the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, yesterday in the center of Copenhagen, in what the police described as an “isolated and spontaneous act.”
“We see it as an isolated and spontaneous act, and at this moment we do not have the hypothesis of our investigation that it will be a planned attack against the Prime Minister,” the inspector of the Copenhagen Police, Trine Møller, told the Ritzau agency after the hearing with restrictions held today.
The individual, accused of assault against a public official, denied the charges during the hearing, and according to the police report, he was clearly influenced by alcohol and other drugs when he was arrested, a minute after hitting Frederiksen in the arm with his fist and pushing her.
A doctor defined the suspect as a mental imbalance.
Frederiksen was treated last night at the Kingdom Hospital in Copenhagen and was diagnosed with a “slight whiplash,” the Prime Minister’s office reported.
For this Saturday, the planned participation of the prime minister in events in Herlev, Rødovre, Roskilde, Holbæk and Slagelse was canceled.
During the interrogation held last night, the individual, who has lived in Denmark for a few months, admitted to having recognized Frederiksen and said he did not remember much of what happened, but denied having beaten her.
In his statement today before the judge, the individual, who needed an interpreter, showed his sympathy for Frederiksen and assured that she was a “very good” prime minister.
“At the moment our main hypothesis is not that it was a politically motivated act. We don’t have any more comments about the case,” the Police had pointed out in their account on social network X.
The incident has provoked numerous reactions of condemnation and solidarity with the assault by members of the Danish Government and the leaders of the main local political parties and the institutions of the European Union.
Frederiksen, 46, has been head of government since June 2019: the first legislature, at the head of a center-left coalition; and since December 2022, at the head of a center executive with two right-wing forces.
The incident provoked numerous reactions of condemnation and solidarity with the assault by members of the Danish Government and the leaders of the main political parties.
“Oh, no, what a surprise. That’s not Denmark. We don’t attack our prime ministers. I send my best thoughts to Mette,” the vice president and minister of Defense, the liberal Troels Lund Poulsen, wrote on the social network X.
Leaders of other countries, such as the prime ministers of Portugal and Italy and the president of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, also sent messages of support to Frederiksen.
Mette Frederiksen, 46, has been head of government since June 2019: the first legislature, at the head of a center-left coalition; and since December 2022, at the head of a center executive with two right-wing forces.
The high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, also condemned the attack on the Prime Minister of Denmark, the Social Democratic Mette Frederiksen.
“Shocked by another physical aggression against a democratically elected leader. I condemn it. My solidarity with Mette Frederiksen. Violence will not determine our political options,” Borrell said in a message disseminated through the social network X.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was also “very shocked” after learning of the aggression against Frederiksen and condemned “this despicable act that goes against everything we believe and what we fight to make Europe.”
“I wish you strength and courage, I know you have plenty,” Von der Leyen told the Danish Prime Minister in X, on account of this attack that occurred in the course of the European Parliament elections from June 6 to 9, after which German politics aspires to remain at the head of the Community Executive.
The president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, described the aggression against Frederiksen as “atrocious”, asserted that “violence has no place in politics” and asked the Danish leader to “stain strong,” through a publication in X.
The president of the European Council, Charles Michel, was “indignant” by the aggression committed and “vehergically” condemned this “cowardly” act, also through the social network X.
“All my thoughts are with you and your family, dear Mette, and I hope you will soon overcome this horrible attack,” said Michel, who chairs the EU body that brings together the presidents and prime ministers of the Twenty-seven.
International
Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links
A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.
Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.
However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.
International
Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”
The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.
“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.
The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.
His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”
International
Miyazaki’s style goes viral with AI but at what cost?
This week, you may have noticed that everything—from historical photos and classic movie scenes to internet memes and recent political moments—has been reimagined on social media as Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend quickly went viral thanks to ChatGPT and the latest update of OpenAI’s chatbot, released on Tuesday, March 25.
The newest addition to GPT-4o has allowed users to replicate the distinctive artistic style of the legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away). “Today is a great day on the internet,” one user declared while sharing popular memes in Ghibli format.
While the trend has captivated users worldwide, it has also highlighted ethical concerns about AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works—and what this means for the livelihoods of human artists.
Not that this concerns OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has actively encouraged the “Ghiblification”experiments. Its CEO, Sam Altman, even changed his profile picture on the social media platform X to a Ghibli-style portrait.
Miyazaki, now 84 years old, is known for his hand-drawn animation approach and whimsical storytelling. He has long expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation. His past remarks on AI-generated animation have resurfaced and gone viral again, particularly when he once said he was “utterly disgusted” by an AI demonstration.
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