In 2021, the Capitol police identified 9,600 threats against parliamentarians, mainly women from diversity and members of the commission of inquiry on the Capitole assault on January 6, 2021.
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“Where is Nancy?” To this cry, a assailant introduced himself, on the night of Thursday 27 to Friday, October 28, at the home of Nancy Pelosi, the president (speaker) of Congress, in San Francisco. He seriously injured the husband of the elected democrat, Paul Pelosi, 82, with a hammer. M me pelosi was in Washington. In his absence, neither his home nor his family benefit from official protection.
According to San Francisco police chief Bill Scott, the police were called to the Pelosi residence, in the posh district of Pacific Heights, at 2:27 am. The agents found Paul Pelosi and the assailant, “both holding a hammer”. The Isntrus “took hold of the hammer in the hands of Mr. Pelosi and used it to attack him violently,” added Bill Scott. The police disarmed the man, before driving the two protagonists to the hospital.
injuries in the hands and arm
Paul Pelosi, founder of an investment and real estate consulting company, one of the city’s fortunes, has a fracture of the skull and several other injuries to the right hands. Doctors who operated it said that his days were not in danger. According to the prosecutor of San Francisco, Brooke Jenkins, it was he who called 911, the emergency number, after the intrusion of the suspect, pretending to have to go to the toilet.
The assailant, David Depape, 42, was charged with attempted homicide. The first information collected on social networks show a character in the course of a coherence difficult to identify. After having grown up in British Columbia (Canada) with his adoptive father, he settled in San Francisco. In 2012, he was part of a community of naturists fighting against the municipal decree prohibiting nudity in public in the city – except for a festival. In the articles of the time, he was described as a jewelry seller, registered in the ecological party Green Party.
conspiracy theories
His posts, for a few years, have been testifying to a conspiratorial drift. The San Francisco Chronicle reported a faras of recriminations on his blog – entitled “God is love” – against the supposed censorship of a cabal of the Tech and the Media elites. All the themes of the ultra -right are found in his writings: the vaccines, the “fraud” which led to the election of Joe Biden, the Woke (“Racists who feel guilty”). In one of his last messages, he proclaims that war in Ukraine is a plot for the benefit of the Jews.
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