A leader of the Proud Boys was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the attack on the Capitol in 2021

Biggs and three other members of the Proud Boys, including their leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted in May of conspiring to riot for the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, amid the Proud Boys’ electoral victory. Certifying Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.

Alongside Biggs and Tarrio of Cuban descent, the other two far-right extremists convicted were Ethan Nordean and Zachary Rehl.

The prosecution had requested a 33-year prison sentence for Biggs. Sentencing this Thursday Close to 18-year-old boy who dictated against the founder of far-right group Oath Keepers last MayStewart Rhodes, also for conspiracy to keep Trump in the White House.

This sentence remains the most severe for a defendant in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack, when nearly 10,000 people, most of them Trump supporters, marched on the Capitol. About 800 people entered the building. There were five deaths and about 140 injured agents.

Another defendant, Dominic Pezzola, along with Biggs and three other Proud Boys, was cleared of sedition charges in May but was found guilty of assault, resisting an authorized official, and stealing government property.

The indictment came after a week of deliberations in federal court in Washington.

Throughout the process, prosecutors showed messages and videos posted by the defendants themselves and other members of the group, calling for violence and revolution against the US presidential change.

The alleged messagesand the need for “war”, revolution” And firing squad of traitors.

A hearing on Nordean’s sentence is scheduled for this Friday, and Tarrio’s sentence is expected to be announced on Tuesday.

District Judge Timothy Kelly said on Thursday that the Constitution grants citizens rights in the sentence handed down to Biggs. “Many important rights that Americans fought and died for” He stressed that the January 6 events “broke the tradition of the peaceful transfer of power”, according to CNN.

Trump himself is also accused of trying to reverse the results of the 2020 election in Washington DC, and this is one of four criminal cases brought against him.

He is facing 13 charges at the state level in this case for the same reason in Georgia, while in New York he is facing another lawsuit for irregular payments he made during the 2016 campaign to silence porn actress Stormy Daniels for an “affiliation” between them. She was in Florida in the past and for the classified documents she received from the White House when she left office.

He did not admit his guilt in all of them. In the case of Georgia, he did this in writing this Thursday: to resign “freely and voluntarily” He was entitled to be present at the official court hearing scheduled for September 6.