6 years in prison for one of the attackers of the US Congress

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, according to various reports, 56-year-old Ralph Calentano was accused of throwing a police officer off the edge of the west balcony of the Congress during The attack on the Congress building on January 6, 2021, was sentenced to 78 months in prison.

According to the court documents, Calentano and other rebels were able to pass the barrier of police officers that day. He then put a congressional police officer behind him and went near a platform and finally threw him down from the edge of the balcony. He fell on the police officers who were at the bottom of the balcony.

Judge Timothy Kelly said that Celentano’s actions on January 6 were disgraceful and that attacking a police officer was a completely cowardly and despicable act.     

This criminal was arrested in 2022 in connection with the attack on the Congress building and was found guilty last year of numerous crimes and criminal charges, including assaulting police officers. Investigators of the case stated that on the day of the attack on the Congress, the man had moved to the front of the rioters who had gathered in the lower west balcony.

On January 6, 2021, former US President Donald Trump, after losing to Joe Biden during the presidential election, encouraged his supporters to attack Congress to disrupt the process of transferring power to Biden. . Since then, Trump has always claimed fraud in the elections.

After Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in January 2021, US prosecutors filed criminal charges against more than 1100 people came forward and arrested them. In between, more than 630 people were convicted and at least 110 people were sentenced in court. During this attack, 4 people were killed and 5 policemen lost their lives and more than 140 policemen were injured.

Attack January 6, 2021 , the most brutal attack on the Capitol since the British attack on Washington during the War of 1812.

Accordingly, the leader of the “Proud Boys” group in the United States received the longest sentence for the attack on the Congress building in January 2021 and was sentenced to 18 He was sentenced to a year in prison.

According to this report, another member of this group was also sentenced to 10 years in prison while leaving the court shouting Trump’s victory.

These two people were the last members of this group who were convicted of participating in the attack on Congress on January 6, 2021, destroying the Congress building and trying to change the election results and Trump’s defeat against Biden.

Meanwhile, not long agoDonald Trump, the leading Republican candidate for the election 2024, called for the release of all those arrested for the attack on Congress in January 2021 were arrested.

He stated that those arrested during the January 6 attack on the Capitol are hostages and that the Biden administration mistreated them.

Republican front-runner Donald Trump is currently facing multiple criminal charges: attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election and assault His supporters stormed the Capitol in January 2021, kept classified documents at his Florida villa after leaving the White House, paid hush money to an unethical movie star, and tried to sway the Georgia state election. He is also involved in fraud and financial charges. In addition, the former US president is facing a case of paying damages to a writer who accused him of sexual assault. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in these cases and has not yet been found guilty in any of these cases.

But Donald Trump raised these accusations only He knows that it is politically motivated and with the aim of excluding him from the 2024 election, despite the fact that according to the results of the latest polls, Trump is still the leading candidate of the Republicans for the 2024 elections. He claims that raising these accusations only made him lead in the polls.

If Trump is re-elected president, he could face any federal charges apply for pardon against himself.

The US presidential election will be held in November 2024. Currently, Joe Biden is the leading candidate of the Democrats and Donald Trump is the leading candidate of the Republicans in the polls .

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