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United States: Meeting with the Capitol attackers, almost 4 years after the riot
Having become the symbol of a deeply fractured America, the attack on the Capitol in January 2021 remains etched in people’s minds. France Télévisions met with several of its actors, two months before the American presidential election.
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Having become the symbol of a deeply fractured America, the attack on the Capitol in January 2021 remains etched in people’s minds. France Télévisions met with several of its actors, two months before the American presidential election.
“My head was on the front page of every newspaper in the world, I was wanted by the FBI, by the courts”confides Jacob Chansley, who receives us in Arizona. On January 6, 2021, the man, nicknamed the “Shaman”, was among the attackers of the Capitol in Washington. On the front lines with his horns on his head and his makeup, he became the face of an insurrection.
A member of the QAnon conspiracy movement, Jacob Chansley was one of the first rioters to enter the Capitol. Now on parole, he was sentenced to three years in prison for trying to disrupt the electoral process. “Look at the numbers, Trump was winning and Biden was losing.“, he points out, convinced that Joe Biden’s victory is a conspiracy of a “communist dictatorship”Nearly four years later, the wounds of January 6 remain open and the attack on the Capitol still divides Americans.