One of the leaders of the American extreme right group Proud Boys was sentenced this Thursday to 17 years in prison for his participation in the assault on the Capitol, the seat of Congress, on January 6, 2021.
Prosecutors had asked for 33 years in prison for Joseph Biggs, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran who brought some 200 members of the Proud Boys to Capitol Hill to try to forcibly overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s victory declaration over outgoing Republican President Donald. Trump.
This is the second longest sentence pronounced by the US Justice for this case.
