Two years after the attack on the Capitol, US police are still searching for 350 people involved in the bloody storm, in addition to a suspect who placed homemade grenades near the Capitol before the day of the storm.
Yesterday, Wednesday, federal police asked the American public to help identify 350 suspects of violence in the Capitol, including 250 who committed these acts against police officers charged with protecting the Congressional Building.
The FBI increased the reward by 5 times for anyone who gives any information that would allow the arrest of the person who placed the homemade bomb near the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic parties, the day before the storming of Congress.
The reward increased from $100,000 to $500,000.
The bomb did not explode, and it may have been placed at that time only to keep the police away from the Capitol before the attack on it.
"We hope that (this new reward) will encourage public opinion to look again at the suspect's photos and videos," the federal police said in a statement.
Photos and videos show a person who is hardly recognizable because he is wearing a hat, mask, goggles and gloves.
The number of detainees
Justice Minister Merrick Garland said, in a statement published yesterday, Wednesday, that more than 950 people have been arrested in the last 24 months in connection with the congressional storming file.
A statement by the minister, who is overseeing the investigation into the Congressional attack, stated that more than two-thirds of those arrested were tried on various charges ranging from simple charges such as storming Congress to sedition, and 192 people were sentenced to prison.
"Our work is not finished," Secretary Garland added, and "we remain determined to prosecute all those responsible for the attack on our democracy."
The ongoing prosecutions focus on the people who directly participated in the attack that shocked the whole world, but the Ministry of Justice is also investigating the responsibility of former President Donald Trump and those close to him for what happened, and the storming left 5 people dead, including a policeman, and more than 140 people injured.
before and during the intrusion
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of President Trump's supporters stirred up chaos and violence in the Capitol, at a time when members of Congress were approving the victory of Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the November 2020 presidential election.
Before storming Congress, former President Trump - who did not admit his defeat in the elections - repeated accusations of rigging the presidential ballot in favor of his rival.
On the morning of the storming, Trump delivered a speech to his supporters, in which he publicly rebuked his deputy at the time, Mike Pence, for not agreeing to his plan to reject the votes that chose Biden.