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For: EFE Updated 31 Jan 2022 , 9: 45 am EST
The then elected vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, passed very close to a bomb that had been placed next to a bench near the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee (NDC) on January 6 last year, the day the assault on the Capitol in Washington.
According to reports today by the CNN network, the motorcade in which Harris was traveling passed several meters from the bomb, and the president-elect remained inside the Committee’s headquarters of his party for almost two hours, before the device was discovered, according to several officials and security personnel familiar with the event.
Details about Harris’s proximity to the explosive and how long he was in the area had not been made public until now. The chain ensures that these disclosures reveal security flaws committed during the aforementioned riots in the heart of the US capital.
In those hours, the security forces tried to respond to multiple important activities, protect prominent politicians and defend against tens of thousands of unrestrained protesters who flooded Washington and stormed the Capitol.
Multiple sources consulted by CNN agree that Harris arrived at party headquarters around of the 11: 30 (local time) in his vehicle through the garage that led to the parking lot, near the place where the police discovered the homemade bomb.
The whereabouts and movements of the now US vice president have been shrouded in uncertainty dumbre, remember the chain. His presence at the CND was not known until early January, when details about his evacuation from the party headquarters were made public minutes after a homemade-type bomb was discovered nearby.
A police source told CNN that the intelligence services, responsible for the protection of Harris that day, they searched the interior of the building, the driveway, the parking lot, and the entrances and exits prior to his arrival.
The source added that Harris was evacuated using an alternate route away from the bomb.
January 6, 2021, nails 10,000 people -mostly sympathizers of the then president, Donald Trump,- marched to the Capitol and some 800 broke into the building to prevent the electoral victory of Democrat Joe Biden from being ratified.
Five people died and about 140 officers were assaulted.
To date, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has charged more than 700 with crimes ranging from physically assaulting police officers to impeding legislators the exercise of their functions, including destroying government property and entering a building with restricted access.
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