US authorities continue to try to identify protesters who participated in the attack on the Capitol on Wednesday. More than a hundred people have already been arrested. Washington is ...

United States: pro-Trump make an appointment for January 20

Face to face between police and supporters of Donald Trump, in front of the Capitol, January 6.

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US authorities continue to try to identify protesters who participated in the attack on the Capitol on Wednesday.

More than a hundred people have already been arrested.

Washington is bracing for a tense 10 days until Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20.

New demonstrations must take place.

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With our correspondent in New York

Loubna Anaki

“

We will be back on the 20th and nothing will stop us, neither the police nor the army!

», On the networks of the extreme right and supporters of Donald Trump, calls for demonstrations continue to multiply.

While the political class and the majority of Americans have condemned the attack on Capitol Hill, most of these groups openly congratulate themselves on their discussion forums.

We are going to liberate Washington and liberate our country, no mercy

", "

We will not let the Communists win

" ... Some of them see the attack on Capitol Hill as a successful show of force and a means of attract new recruits.

Most still refuse to accept Joe Biden's victory and keep repeating that Donald Trump will start a second term in 10 days.

And with the approach of the inauguration of Joe Biden, the observers of the American radical movements call for vigilance.

Former FBI Deputy Director Frank Figliuzzi believes far-right groups feel invincible after they make their way into the Capitol.

Some of them even call to come back armed, he explains.

Three of the pro-Trump protesters whose photos have toured the world since their violent intrusion on the Capitol on Wednesday have been arrested and charged, the Justice Department said on Saturday.

Jacob Anthony Chansley, aka Jake Angeli, the shirtless, buffalo horned and painted conspirator who had magnetized photographers and cameras across Capitol Hill, was arrested and charged with unlawful trespassing and violent conduct on Capitol Hill, said the ministry in a press release.

Adam Johnson, the 30-year-old in the Trump hat pictured all smiles carrying the desk of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was arrested in Florida on Friday.

He was charged with the same counts but also with theft, although Ms Pelosi's desk was found the next day, abandoned in a hallway.

Finally Derrick Evans, an elected member of the Parliament of the State of West Virginia who had filmed himself breaking into Congress by shouting "Derrick Evans is on Capitol Hill!"

Was arrested Friday at his home and charged on Saturday with illegal trespassing and violent conduct.

The three indictments highlight that the defendants illegally entered a federal building "

while Vice President Mike Pence was present

", which aggravates their case.

On Friday, the ministry had already announced 13 indictments for trespassing and disorder, and the arrest in Arkansas of Richard Barnett, a pro-gun activist photographed with his foot on Nancy Pelosi's desk.

Before leaving, he left an insulting note for the Democratic leader in Congress.

Among those pursued are a man who had eleven molotov cocktails in a vehicle parked near Congress, another who punched a Capitol policeman while forcing his way, and a third entered with a gun. loaded into the Congress precinct.

United States: pro-Trump make an appointment for January 20

United States: pro-Trump make an appointment for January 20

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