The suspect, 42 years old and customary of extreme right positions on social networks, risks up to 50 years in prison for the two charges if he is found guilty. >
Le Monde with AFP
David Depape, the man suspected of having violently assaulted the husband of the Democrats’s heads at the Nancy Pelosi Congress, was charged with attempted kidnapping and aggression, announced the US Ministry of Justice Monday 31 October.
The man had introduced himself on Friday morning in the couple’s home, in San Francisco (California), equipped in particular with plastic links, pairs of gloves and adhesive ribbon, the ministry said in a statement. So many elements which prove, according to justice, that he intended to kidnap the manager, a charges who could assert him up to twenty years in prison.
The 42 -year -old suspect had entered the couple’s room looking for Nancy Pelosi, who was in Washington. He woke up Paul Pelosi, 82, whom he then attacked with a hammer. Then he was arrested on the spot by the police, who had found the husband of Nancy Pelosi unconscious. Having attacked a family member of an American official made him incur a prison sentence of up to thirty years, said the Ministry of Justice.
Nancy Pelosi “traumatized”
After his arrest, David Depape had declared to the agents that he judged Nancy Pelosi responsible for the “lies” propagated according to him by the Democratic Party, according to a judicial document attached to the ministry’s press release.
explaining that he had intended to take her hostage and speak to her, the man had explained that if she told her “the truth”, he would release her, but that “if she was lying, he would break her kneecaps “, According to this same source. Paul Pelosi “suffered the punishment in his place,” said the suspect. David Depape, who lived in a garage in a small town near San Francisco, had relayed extreme right theories on social networks.
Nancy Pelosi said he was “traumatized” on Saturday by the assault, stating that Paul Pelosi’s state of health, operated for a fracture of the skull and arm injuries on Friday, continued to improve . President Joe Biden denounced an “ignoble” act. Several Republican officials, such as Donald Trump, condemned the attack while criticizing the Democrats the rise of insecurity -one of their main campaign arguments for the mid -term elections -, and refusing to make the link January 6, 2021, where many attackers shouted “where is Nancy?” By entering the Capitol.
The billionaire Elon Musk, new owner of the Twitter social network, echoed a eccentric and homophobic rumor on Sunday on Paul Pelosi, tweet “there is a small possibility that The appearances are misleading “, and referring to a link to the conspiracy site of the far right Santa Monica observing. He then erased his tweet and is taken at the New York Times which had previously criticized it .