The leader of the 2020 election violence in the United States has been sentenced to 18 years in prison

  A US judge has sentenced Ethan Nordean, the leader of the far-right extremist group, Proud Boys, to 18 years in prison, for his involvement in the attack on the Congress building, Capitol, on January 6, 2021. The US court has convicted him Nordean was charged with conspiracy to incite the commission of another crime, and his sentence is considered to be the longest in the case of an attack on Congress. The court has also sentenced Joseph Biggs, who was one of the former leaders of the Proud Boys group, to 17 years in prison for being found guilty of involvement in the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Congress building. The American media has announced that Joseph Biggs, a former soldier of the United States Army, was one of the leaders of the Proud Boys group in Florida.

The Proud Boys was founded in 2016, and is a right-wing group that supports the former president of the United States, Donald Trump. The all-male group says it supports gun rights and defends Western culture. On January 6, 2021, hundreds of Trump supporters caused chaos and violence in the Congress building, when lawmakers were confirming the victory of the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, in the presidential election held in November 2020. of the United States Congress The violence and chaos began after Trump - who did not accept defeat in the election - claimed that the presidential election vote had been rigged in favor of his opponent, Joe Biden. Five people were killed in the riots and the Congress was temporarily disrupted.