Fear returns to Capitol Hill, with a bomb scare that led to the evacuation of the US Library of Congress and the Supreme Court. Seven months after the dramatic assault by Donald Trump’s supporters, a man who claimed to have an explosive device in his van, parked on one of the streets lining the Capitol complex, threatened the heart of US democracy. According to Site, the site that monitors the social activity of the terrorists, the man may be a fanatic of the former president, having recently expressed in various videos and posts “extreme feelings” related to the ‘doctrine’ of Make America Great Again ( ‘Maga’), the tycoon’s trademark slogan. Impressive the deployment of the police around the Capitol, with the order to anyone not to approach the area. However, the evacuation operations were facilitated by the fact that the work of the Congress in this week of August is suspended and that many buildings, such as the Library and the High Court, are still closed to the public due to the pandemic. Great tension, with the suspicion that for hours he has been keeping the police in check. Through a live stream on Facebook that lasted at least half an hour, he showed himself inside the van with a container in his hand that he said would hold some bomb tubes, showing what could be a detonator and praising the “revolution”, according to reports. by police. “We are trying to resolve the issue peacefully,” the agents explained. The men of the FBI are also on the field, while the White House has said it is constantly updated on the evolution of the situation. According to Rita Katz, the director of Site, the man recently wrote on social media that he had obtained the explosives from military circles.
“It’s almost time … Biden you’re fired … It’s not an option … run away from our country …” would read one of the last post of the man shown on Twitter by the director of Site. Five people were killed in the assault on Congress on January 6, while work was underway in the Senate to certify Joe Biden’s victory. On April 2, a policeman was killed and another was injured by a young man who had thrown his car into the security barriers of the Capitol. The young man was in turn killed by the agents.
The man inside the black van is a ‘person known to the police’. This was reported by the Washington DC television channel ‘Fox 5’ while according to what emerges from a tweet by Rita Katz, the head of Site, the site that monitors the social activity of terrorists “he could be a fanatic of Donald Trump”