Usa, a Marine officer arrested for the assault on Capitol Hill

by time news

A Marine officer was arrested on suspicion of participating in the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6. He is the first military officer on duty to be indicted. The Justice Department reported that Major Christopher Warnagiris, 40, “violently entered the Capitol after breaking through a line of policemen guarding the doors of the East Rotunda”, the eastern high of the buildings housing the American Congress. , in Washington. The soldier then used his body to hold the door open and allow other people to enter. Warnagiris, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was stationed at the Marine Base in Quantico, Virginia. The officer is one of the 440 people currently indicted for the insurrection, in which many veterans and National Guard reservists took part.

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