The US Justice sentenced two leaders of the Proud Boys group to 17 and 15 years in prison this Thursday. This is a far-right paramilitary group that prosecutors said saw themselves as “Trump’s army.” Some of its members participated and led the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Among them are Zachary Reh and Joe Biggs, the last ones convicted for this episode.
Zachary Reh and Joe Biggs were part of what they called the Proud Boys’ “Self-Defense Ministry,” through which they established a chain of command, recruited members, and planned how to execute the attack on the Capitol, the Justice Department said. it’s a statement. The objective of the assault was to interrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential elections, after the then US president spoke of electoral fraud.
Biggs is a US Army veteran who was injured while serving in Iraq and later worked for the Infowars conspiracy website.
Both leaders were found guilty in May of conspiring to commit sedition along with Ethan Nordean and the group’s leader, Enrique Tarrio. The prosecution had requested 30 years in prison against Rehl and 33 against Biggs, although in the end they will serve 15 and 17 years, respectively.
In this way, the second toughest sentence in relation to the assault on the Capitol falls on Joe Biggs, only surpassed by the one filed against Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers group, sentenced to 18 years.
The assault on the Capitol has meant that more than 1,100 people have faced accusations related to the riots that occurred that day. Of all of them, more than 600 have already been sentenced. Donald Trump himself is charged in Washington for trying to subvert the 2020 electoral result. The trial is expected to begin on March 4, 2024, in full primaries for the presidential elections next year.
The former president of the United States pleaded not guilty this Thursday to the 13 charges that the Georgia state prosecutor’s office charges him for conspiring, through mafia extortion and falsehoods, to reverse his defeat in the 2020 presidential elections. A week earlier, Trump He was booked as one more inmate in Georgia for crimes against democracy on a historic day as it was the first time the world saw the former president of the United States in a mugshot, arrested and booked as a prisoner.
