His photos inside the Capitol with Viking "horns" on his head and the US flag in his hand had gone around the world. And they had become one of the symbols of the assault on the Washington Congress by the supporters of Donald Trump, not resigned to the victory of Joe Biden in the presidential elections.
Today, ten months later, for Jacob Chansley, known as the Shaman, who was put on trial together with many others for the events in Washington on January 6 (during which five victims were also recorded), the sentence has arrived: 41 months of prison.
A 34-year-old supporter of QAnon conspiracy theories, Chansley pleaded guilty last September . Before the judge he had admitted that he had participated in the revolt carried out against one of the holiest places in American democracy with the aim of preventing the certification of Biden's victory and his subsequent installation in the White House.
In recent days the same sentence - 41 months - had been imposed on Scott Fairlamb, owner of
a gymnasium in New Jersey and a former mixed martial arts fighter, also convicted of attacking Congress and assaulting an agent during the devastation.
(Unioneonline / lf)
