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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Proud Boys leaders charged with seditious conspiracy in 6 January riot

man in baseball cap and surgical masks carries folder and garbage bag
Enrique Tarrio leaves the Washington DC central detention facility in January this year. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

Top leaders of the far-right Proud Boys group, including its national chairman, Enrique Tarrio, have been charged with seditious conspiracy for plotting to storm the US Capitol to obstruct the certification of Joe Biden’s election win over Donald Trump on 6 January 2021.

The move by federal prosecutors to charge Tarrio and four other Proud Boys leaders with seditious conspiracy – in addition to previous charges of obstructing a congressional proceeding – marks a major development in the criminal investigation into the Capitol attack.

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