Two years after the attack on the US Capitol, US police are still looking for 350 people involved, in addition to the suspect who planted homemade grenades outside the headquarters of the US Congress the day before, Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. a statement released on Wednesday, two days before the second anniversary of the attack, that more than 950 people had been arrested in the past 24 months.
According to a separate statement from the U.S. Attorney in Washington, who is conducting the ranging investigation.
“Our work is not over yet,” Secretary of State Garland added, “and we remain determined to hold accountable those responsible for the attack on our democracy.”
Federal police are still trying to identify 350 suspects in the Capitol violence, including 250 against two police officers, and again on Wednesday asked the public for help.
The FBI has quintupled the reward, from $100,000 to $500,000, in exchange for obtaining any information that would lead to the arrest of a man who planted a homemade bomb near the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic parties on the evening of January 5, 2021.
None of them exploded, and their placement at the time may have only been intended to keep the police away from the Capitol before attacking.
“We hope that (this new award) will encourage public opinion to take another look at photos and videos of the suspect,” the federal police said in a statement. The scenes show a person who is difficult to recognize because he wears a hat, mask, glasses and gloves.
In January 2021, hundreds of supporters of Republican President Donald Trump unleashed chaos and violence at the Capitol as MPs cheered for Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
Currently, prosecutions are focused on the people who were directly involved in the world-shaking attack, but the Justice Department is also investigating the responsibility of Trump and his family for what happened.
Since Trump announced his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election, a special prosecutor has been appointed to independently oversee investigations into the former president.
