Since the attack of January 6, 2021, more than 950 supporters of the former republican president Donald Trump have been arrested and charged for having sown chaos in the seat of American democracy.
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Four members of the extreme right militia “Oath Keepers” were found guilty on Monday, January 23, of sedition for their role in the Capitole assault, after the second trial organized on this extremely charging charge Rare.
Nearly a thousand people have been arrested, then charged, since the attack on January 6, 2021. Among them, only 14 far -right group activists, nine members of the “Oath Keepers” and five “Proud Boys “, have been accused of” sedition “, a chief liable to 20 years in prison which involves having planned the use of force to oppose the government.
In the absence of a sufficient space in the Washington Federal Court, justice organized the trial of the Oath Keepers, accused of having trained and armed for the occasion, in two stages. A first trial ended in late November with a mixed verdict: the founder of this militia, Stewart Rhodes, and a local official were declared guilty of sedition, but their three co -accused were acquitted on this chief.
Monday, at the end of the second trial, the jurors deemed the last four oath keepers, men aged 38 to 64 years described as dangerous “traitors” by the accusation, but like “fanfoons” by their lawyers. The trial of the Proud Boys, including their leader Enrique Tarrio, opened in December and was still underway on Monday, in the same court.
feet on the desk of Nancy Pelosi
In addition, a 62 -year -old man, Richard Barnett, who had been immortalized his feet on a table in the office of the Democratic Chef Nancy Pelosi during this attack, was found guilty of other crimes. The jurors declared her guilty in particular of an official procedure, theft and intrusion in an official building with a dangerous weapon (a walking stick capable of sending electric shocks).
On January 6, 2021, he had been photographed by the France-Presse agency in the office of the head of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, feet on a piece of furniture. The cliché had gone around the world and allowed the police to quickly challenge it.
According to the accusation file, this supporter of the conspiratorial movement Qanon had left an insulting message to the Democrat and stole an envelope which she had signed. During his trial, he had shown himself to be unbeatable, ensuring that he was “pushed inside” of the Capitol by the crowd.
His sentence will be pronounced in May. In the meantime, he remains under house arrest with an electronic bracelet.