The first to enter the Capitol to open the doors to the rest of the mutineers is sentenced to three years in prison

MADRID, 7 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A United States court has sentenced the first of the rioters in the assault on the Capitol to three years in prison, who entered inside and opened one of the doors so that the rest of the crowd cheered on by former President Donald Trump broke into the place. that January 6, 2021.

The man who has been sentenced to three years in prison is George Amos Tenney III, 36 years old and a native of South Carolina, for two federal crimes --obstructing a legal process and assaulting a public official-- of which he pleaded guilty in June.

Prosecutors maintain that Tenney "played a key role in worsening the attack" since he forced one of the doors through which at least fifty people initially entered the Capitol with the declared intention of stopping the peaceful transfer of the presidential power.

Tenney has been described by prosecutors as "the original instigator of one of the two largest violations the Capitol building suffered that day," while recalling some of his claims on social media before the attack. "It seems that we can begin to besiege Congress if the electoral vote count does not go well," they have paraphrased from the Prosecutor's Office.

The defense has indicated that Tenney is "deeply sorry" and that seeing the consequences of that riot he realized that both he and the rest of those who participated "were nothing more than pawns of ill-intentioned politicians and right-wing media personalities ".

Despite what happened that day, few of those implicated will have to spend more than a year in jail, although most of the cases have resulted in minor crimes until recently several militiamen from far-right groups have been sentenced to severe prison sentences for crimes of sedition and rebellion.