A file released by the FBI with photographs of the people involved in the assault on the US Capitol FBI
The FBI has sought out 40 supporters of Donald Trump who participated in the assault on the Capitol last Wednesday.
The investigation agency has issued a file with the faces of those involved and has asked the population for help to send any information that may be useful for their arrest.
The main target of the authorities is to identify those who were involved in the manufacture of the tube bombs that were found in Washington in the hours after the riots and offer a reward of up to $ 50,000 to anyone who provides information leading to their capture.
The FBI images portray several individuals who broke into Congress, took various objects from the offices and caused damage to the building.
Caps with the most famous slogans of the US president, protesters wearing military clothing and equipment, and people who bragged about having trophies as stationery for Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the Lower House, are part of the photo gallery that has been released since Thursday on social networks by the authorities.
Other members of the protests who were caught carried confederate flags (considered a racist symbol by minorities), riot shields and batons.
Some photographs have gone viral on social networks and have reached the news and the front pages around the world, such as the one that shows a person with a helmet hanging over one of the friezes of the building, holding on to avoid falling.
Some of the most controversial groups in Trumpism are in the orbit of the authorities.
The name of the Proud Boys, an alt-right gang, has been constantly appearing in the media following Wednesday's protests, singled out as one of the organizations that may be behind the assault.
Enrique Tarrio, the founder, was arrested on the eve of the protests for vandalizing a monument of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Kevin Greeson, one of the protesters who died of medical complications after participating in the riots, also posted several messages from the Proud Boys in Parler, a social network favored by far-right groups, in recent weeks.
The virtual terrain is a reflection of the slogans championed by the mob that supported Trump: from conspiracy theories about the pandemic to xenophobic and racist messages.
After the permanent suspension of Trump's Twitter account, the
twexit
label became a trend in Parler
, calling for the abandonment of the “hegemonic” social network and which has hardened its position in the face of the president's messages.
The delusions of QAnon, a group that claims that the
Washington
establishment
is ruled by a pedophile elite, also tend to be widely publicized in forums and applications with deliberately lax policies of use than those of traditional networks.
"Anyone who has information on these subjects or anyone who has witnessed any violent and illegal action on or near the Capitol is asked to contact the FBI," the bulletin issued by the corporation reads.
They have also asked for videos, photos and any other material that allows them to find the protesters.
Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that he had brought charges against 55 people involved in the brawl, for crimes such as illegal possession of weapons, possession of explosives, injuries and assault.
One of the defendants, for example, had 11 Molotov cocktails.
The FBI highlighted the capture of an individual who raided Pelosi's office and who gained media attention for his peculiar outfit: a kind of headdress with horns.
"This arrest shows all those involved in the break-in to the Capitol on January 6 that the FBI is going to find them and hold them accountable for their crimes, no matter where they are," the agency said on Twitter.
After the events that shocked the United States and that have put the disruptive role of social networks in the spotlight, the message that the FBI wants to send is that the persecution in the physical and virtual terrain is just beginning.
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