The top leaders of the far-right Proud Boys group, including its national chairman, Enrique Tarrio, have been charged with seditious conspiracy, accused of coordinating a plot to storm the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021 and criminally obstructing Joe Biden's 2020 election victory over Donald Trump.
The move by the US justice department to charge Tarrio and four other Proud Boys with seditious conspiracy is a major development in the criminal investigation of the Capitol attack, as it comes in addition to previous charges of obstructing a congressional proceeding.
Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, is among other individuals charged with seditious conspiracy over the January 6 riot.
A bipartisan US Senate report linked seven deaths to the attack on the Capitol, which failed to stop Biden's win.