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Jacob Chansley at the Capitol in January
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The "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley has to go to jail for 41 months.
That decided a federal judge in the US capital Washington.
The man from Phoenix, Arizona, stormed the Capitol on January 6th along with other supporters of the elected President Donald Trump. Images of Chansley with a bare torso full of tattoos, a painted face, a fur hat with buffalo horns and a spear with a US flag went around the world. The self-proclaimed "shaman" and supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory thus became one of the most famous Capitol attackers - and a face of the violence of January 6th.
Chansley aka Jake Angeli pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official transaction in September.
The public prosecutor subsequently demanded 51 months and thus more than four years in prison for him.
In theory, Chansley would have threatened up to 20 years in prison.
Lawyer Watkins said before the hearing that his client was now opposed to the QAnon movement.
He is a "non-violent, peaceful man with real mental health problems" that have made him "more susceptible to conspiracy theories."
According to the US judiciary, Chansley was one of the first 30 attackers who stormed into the interior of the parliament building.
He penetrated into the Senate Chamber.
The 34-year-old was arrested a few days after the storm on the Capitol and has been in custody ever since.
Radical Trump supporters stormed the congress building when the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential election on November 3, 2020 was to be certified.
Five people died during or on the verge of the violence, including a police officer and an attacker who was shot by the police.
According to the Justice Department, more than 570 people were arrested in the course of the far-reaching investigation into the storming of the Capitol.
More than 650 people were charged.
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