Usa, agents in tears: “In the assault on Congress we saw death”

NEW YORK – “I was more afraid of Americans like me that day than when I was on a mission in Iraq” cries the sergeant Aquilino Gonell, a former army veteran who later joined the body that guarantees the security of Congress, summoning before the commission charged with investigating the Capitol Hill assault on January 6 – which met on Monday for the first hearing, broadcast live on TV – as the crowd he broke his hand by beating him with flagpoles, after having stunned him with pepper spray: “I thought” here, I will die today trying to protect the access to the building “” he says wiping his eyes.