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For: EFE
WASHINGTON – Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right group Proud Boys, came out this Friday from a Washington prison after serving a five-month sentence for burning a flag he removed from a historic black church and bringing high-capacity rifle magazines to the US capital.
The US media showed images of Tarrio, an American with Cuban roots and a resident of Miami, leaving a detention center wearing a T-shirt that read “Free the Proud Boys… By any means necessary.” ”.
The leader of the Proud Boys was arrested in Washington on January 4 of 2021, two days before the tragic assault on the Capitol by radical supporters of then President Donald Trump (2017-2021), that left five dead and 140 officers injured.
In July , pleaded guilty to both charges before the judge, and in November he requested to be released early, criticizing the conditions in the prison, a request that was denied.
Tarrio, from 37 years, has not been charged for the assault on the Capitol , although he acknowledged that his visit to the US capital had as its main objective to participate in the mobilizations of support for Trump on the 6th, and the police later acknowledged that they had arrested him in part to try to contain possible unrest.
More than one Thirty members of the Proud Boys have been indicted for the attack and the group is believed to have been largely behind the organization of the protests that led to the storming of the Capitol, after Trump encouraged his supporters. is to reject the result of the November elections, which the current president, Joe Biden, won.
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