This extreme right group would have played a key role in organizing events of January 6, 2021. This is the first time this charge is used in the investigation, which seeks to demonstrate the premeditation. .
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The FBI crosses a major terminal in one of the most sensitive surveys of its history, immense political implications. For the first time in a year, the head of charge of “conspiracy” was retained against participants given against the Capitol, on January 6, 2021. Of the eleven people concerned Figure Stewart Rhodes, the founder From the extreme right militia of Oath Keepers. Punishable by twenty years in prison, this rarely employed and complex count to prove shows the willingness of the investigators to support operational premeditation, the day of the assault, beyond the supporters of Donald Trump swept away by the fatal fervor From this moment when the certification of the presidential election has failed to be compromised.
In one year, nearly 725 people have already been arrested, including 225 for facts of violence and obstruction against law enforcement. In a long communiqué , the Columbia District Prosecutor’s Office, in charge of the investigation, detailed, on Thursday, January 13, the charges against members of the Oath Keepers. These played a key role, with Proud Boys, to raise popular anger and encourage confrontation with the Capitol-deployed police officers. “From the end of December 2020, via encrypted and private messaging, Rhodes and various co-conspirators coordinated and planned the trip to Washington,” says the press release, adding that these men “have established plans to bring weapons in The area in support of the operation “.
Recruitment, training, paramilitary equipment …
The charge for “conspiracy” is justified, according to the Attorney General, by the operating mode chosen: the organization of small coordinated teams, the recruitment, training, then the routing of paramilitary equipment on the premises – “Including knives, sticks, camouflaged combat uniforms, bulletproof vests, helmets, eye protection and radio relays”. On January 6, 2021, the Oath Keepers deployed in several strategic points around the Capitol.
Shortly after 14 hours, when the first windows flew under the blows of insurgents, Rhodes penetrated the scope around the Capitol, in principle closed to the public. A first group of OATHEPERS advancing in grouped training has mounted the steps of the entrance is of the building to enter. A second group then borrowed the west entrance. Others remained positioned “just outside the city in rapid reaction force teams”, ready to send firearms, explains the press release. These weapons would have been prepositioned in a hotel room in Arlington, Virginia.
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