6 Established 1961 International Monday, January 11, 2021 Trump backer seen in horned fur hat charged in Capitol violence Chansley charged with ‘knowingly entering a restricted building’

WASHINGTON: Authorities announced new on Thursday to confirm his presence on Capitol Hill, arrests and charges Saturday over the violent telling law enforcement agents he came as part of a incursion into the US Capitol, including a tattoo- group from Arizona “at the request of the President chested man in a horned headdress whose image that all ‘patriots’ come to DC on January 6, 2021.” was beamed around the world. That man, Jacob He had been spotted many times at pro-Trump Anthony Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, and events in Phoenix in recent months, wearing his two others-one of them a newly elected state offi- distinctive headpiece. The two other men were cial from West Virginia-were charged in federal Derrick Evans, 35, a recently elected member of the court in connection with the violence, according to West Virginia House of Delegates, and Adam the US attorney’s office for the District of Johnson, 36, of Florida. Columbia. Several of the intruders made their identification Chansley was charged with “knowingly entering simple. Evans was seen in video that he streamed or remaining in any restricted building or grounds live on his Facebook page, according to the US without lawful authority, and with violent entry and attorney’s office, shouting as he crossed the thresh- disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.” old into the Capitol, “We’re in, we’re in! Derrick The statement alleged that Chansley was “the Evans is in the Capitol!” man seen in media coverage who entered the After calls from colleagues that he step down, Capitol building dressed in horns, a bearskin head- Evans on Saturday submitted a letter of resignation dress, red, white and blue face paint, shirtless, and to the state’s governor. “I take full responsibility for tan pants,” while carrying a long spear with an my actions, and deeply regret any hurt, pain or American flag tied to it. Chansley’s seeming resem- embarrassment I may have caused my family, blance to singer Jay Kay sparked a worldwide buzz friends, constituents and fellow West Virginians,” on social media, prompting the Jamiroquai front- Evans said in a statement reported by local media. man to issue a statement making clear that he was “I hope (my resignation) helps to begin the heal- nowhere near Washington when the pro-Trump ing process, so we can all move forward and come WASHINGTON, DC: In this file photo taken on January 06, 2021, supporters of US President Donald Trump, including mob stormed the Capitol. Chansley describes him- together as ‘One Nation, Under God.’” Johnson was Jake Angeli alias Jacob Anthony Chansley (center), a QAnon supporter, enter the Capitol in Washington, DC. —AFP self as a “digital soldier” of the far-right QAnon seen in widely circulated photos showing him smil- conspiracy theory that claims Trump is waging a ing and waving as he carries the lectern of House secret war against a global liberal cult of Satan- Speaker Nancy Pelosi through the Capitol Rotunda. username “Adam Johnson,” showing the suspect Department said Friday that 15 others had been worshipping pedophiles. Police identified him in part through a photo- posing in a Capitol hallway. The lectern was found charged over the incursion, including one man A police statement said Chansley called the FBI graph posted to a social media account with the one day later, abandoned in a corridor. The Justice accused of possessing bombs. — AFP

News in brief tification of the election. Hawley: Young US It was a show of solidarity with-and perhaps an inspiration for-men and women who went on to storm Belgium virus death toll 20,000 the building in their violent efforts to overturn the senator accused election result and keep in Donald Trump power. The BRUSSEL: The number of fatalities in Belgium gesture could haunt his political career. Barely an from the new coronavirus crossed 20,000 yes- of stoking riots hour after the first pump, the US Capitol was overrun terday, health officials said, with more than half in a deadly riot that laid siege to the seat of American the dead from retirement care homes. The WASHINGTON: Josh Hawley is a young Republican democracy. “Violence is not how you achieve country, with a population of 11.5 million, has senator with eyes on high office, but his objection to change,” a clearly shaken Hawley said later that night recorded 662,694 cases and 20,038 deaths the election results and his support for Trump loyal- on the Senate floor, after police expelled the intruders since the pandemic broke out, the Sciensano ists who went on to ransack the US Capitol leave him and secured the building. But the damage had already public health institute said. Belgium counts all accused of having blood on his hands. been done, and for Hawley the dominos fell quickly. deaths of people who have had a positive The confident 41-year-old conservative who is Fellow Republican senators denounced him. He US Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, speaks Covid-19 test among virus fatalities, giving it Missouri’s junior senator has made no effort to hide lost a book deal. Donors are reportedly irate. to the press during a break in the Senate impeachment one of the world’s highest death rates with his presidential ambitions. Now his political future And the Republican Party is cleaving in two over trial of US President Donald Trump, at the US Capitol in 1,725 per 100,000 people, according to an AFP hangs in the balance as he faces mounting criticism Trump’s baseless conspiracy theories that Biden’s Washington, DC. — AFP tally. During the first wave of the pandemic after becoming the first senator to publicly support Democrats somehow stole the election. Belgium also included people who died and efforts to block the electoral votes in swing states condemnation of the violence” and called on him to may have had the virus but did not necessarily that supported Joe Biden for president. On ‘A dangerous threat’ resign. “Hawley’s presidential aspirations have been have a test. UK helps raise $1 billion in global Wednesday morning, Hawley raised a clenched fist Hawley faced stinging rebukes from his state’s flushed down the toilet because of his role in insti- vaccine donations. — AFP at nearby Trump supporters as he walked into the two main newspapers, including the St. Louis Post gating Wednesday’s assault on democracy,” the Capitol where lawmakers would begin the final cer- Dispatch which slammed his “tardy, cover-his-ass paper wrote. —AFP UK raises $1bn in donations Bishkek, where cold winters usher in a LONDRES: Britain said yesterday it has Kyrgyzstan thick blanket of smog courtesy of pol- helped raise $1 billion (818 million euros) from luting heating systems and ageing global donors towards the drive to help “vulner- transport, many voters said they able countries” access coronavirus vaccines, by populist tipped intended to back Japarov-who was match-funding contributions. The UK said, in convicted for hostage-taking-at the addition, it has committed £548 million to the for easy win ballot box. COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC), “He has promised to raise salaries, after matching with £1 every $4 pledged by BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan went to presi- pensions,” said Vera Pavlova, 69, who other donors. Canada, Japan and Germany are dential polls yesterday in its first elec- admitted that she knew little about among the countries to make contributions that tions since a political crisis embroiled other candidates. “I haven’t seen their it matched, helping the AMC raise more than the ex-Soviet country and saw a pop- posters anywhere. Only Japarov’s.” $1.7 billion in total so far. The fund will allow for ulist freed from jail who is now tipped In addition to picking a new presi- the distribution of one billion COVID-19 vac- to top the ballot. Sadyr Japarov’s jour- dent Kyrgyz are choosing between cine doses to 92 developing countries this year, ney from prison to presidential fron- parliamentary and presidential forms according to Britain’s Foreign Office. Cuba to trunner is an example of the dramatic of government, with Japarov backing test COVID vaccine candidate in Iran.—AFP changes in political fortunes in the greater powers for the post he is Central Asian country that is both seeking. more unpredictable and pluralistic BISHKEK: An elderly woman votes during Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election and a Cuba to test COVID vaccine in Iran than its authoritarian neighbors. Crime, corruption referendum on government system in the village of Gornaya-Mayevka outside But critics of combative Japarov, Japarov, who was sprung from jail Bishkek yesterday.— AFP 52, who became acting leader during HAVANA: Cuba will test its most advanced by supporters during the crisis before the October unrest, fear his victory COVID vaccine candidate, in Iran, the research a court overturned his conviction, has a unifying tone in his last campaign tered by the coronavirus pandemic, could tip Kyrgyzstan towards the center that developed it announced on styled himself as an uncompromising appearance on Friday in Bishkek. “Let Kyrgyzstan’s next leader is likely to be strongman rule dominant in the ex- Saturday. State-run Finlay Vaccine Institute opponent of organized crime and sys- us come together... treat each other even more dependent on goodwill Soviet region. (IFV) and the Pasteur Institute of Iran signed an temic corruption. He has poured scorn with understanding and respect. We from allies Russia-a destination for Voters began trickling into polling agreement in Havana that will see a Phase 3 on critics, some of whom have specu- are one country, one people,” he told hundreds of thousands of Kyrgyz stations in frosty conditions at 8:00 clinical trial in Iran, to “move forward faster in lated that criminal networks are a crowd of several thousand people. migrants-and neighboring economic am (0200 GMT). In the capital immunization against COVID-19 in both coun- behind his rise to power. But he struck With a threadbare economy bat- giant China. — AFP tries,” the IFV announced on Twitter. The news came on the heels of Iran’s supreme leader on percent said they would “probably” get vaccinated, Friday banning the import of American and while one in 10 (11 percent) would “probably not” British-produced vaccines against COVID-19, In vaccine-skeptic or “definitely not”. Another 14 percent did not saying they were “completely untrustworthy.” answer, the research in October and November Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a tweet, accom- France, some showed. panied by the hashtag #CoronaVaccine: “It’s “We’re a long way from having mass commit- not unlikely they would want to contaminate ment and acceptance,” Verger told AFP, saying the other nations.” Nine arrested as Danish virus- medics also hesitate results confirmed those of a previous study in 2014. curb protests turn violent.—AFP PARIS: As the French government seeks to ramp “If the level of hesitation among doctors does not up its lagging COVID-19 vaccination campaign, it go down, it will be a brake on the vaccination cam- faces a tricky challenge: convincing all doctors to paign under way,” he added. Danish virus-curb protests violent back the jabs, even though some share the same This is a concern for the French government as it hesitations as the general population. Despite tries to accelerate after a slow start-but it has impli- COPENHAGEN: Nine people were arrested France’s record of pioneering vaccine work, surveys cations for all countries with significant public in Denmark on Saturday after demonstrations show it has become one of the most skeptical coun- opposition to the new COVID-19 vaccines. against the country’s coronavirus restrictions tries in the world after the emergence of a powerful By implying the pandemic was a manufactured A nurse injects a dose of Pfizer/BioNTech Comirnaty turned violent in two cities including capital “anti-vax” movement that has pushed conspiracy emergency to benefit pharmaceutical companies, COVID-19 vaccine to a colleague in the vaccination Copenhagen, police and local media said. theories. Perronne has become a a top-selling author and a center of the Haut-Leveque hospital in Pessac, near Between 200 and 250 people had gathered in At the end of 2020, only 40 percent of French leading light in anti-vax circles, along with oncolo- Bordeaux. —AFP Copenhagen and dozens in the city of Aalborg people planned to get inoculated against the coron- gist Henri Joyeux from the southern city of in Denmark’s north, according to media reports avirus, while a new poll on Friday showed that the Montpellier. Antoine Bristielle, a researcher who ‘Is it safe?’ citing police accounts. Organized by a group figure had risen to 56 percent-still far below the recently authored a report on vaccine skepticism Verger and Bristielle say they believe doctors calling itself “Men in Black”, the demonstrations average of other developed countries. Pierre for the Jean-Jaures Foundation, a think-tank, said will grow more confident if the government contin- targeted restrictions imposed to curb the Verger, a researcher who studies attitudes to vacci- doctors are trusted to combat these views in a way ues to be transparent with studies and data, a view spread of the coronavirus. Protesters shouted: nation among French GPs, published his latest data that politicians and national scientific institutions endorsed by Paris-based infectious diseases spe- “Freedom for Denmark, we have had enough,” on Friday that revealed a smaller but significant lev- are not. cialist Solen Kerneis. She said she felt “emotional” according to media reports. In TV broadcasts el of hesitation among GPs. “In France, people place a lot of confidence in and delighted this week after administering her first and video posted to social media, police in riot Around half (47 percent) of 1,200 doctors sur- their GPs to get information about vaccines,” he jab to a nurse colleague at the Bichat public hospi- gear could be seen clashing with protesters in veyed declared that they would “certainly” get a told AFP. “If your GP says ‘go and get vaccinat- tal in Paris. But she understands why some col- Copenhagen, who lit fireworks and threw bot- COVID-19 jab, the study backed by the DREES ed,’ it’s a powerful message. On the other hand, if leagues might be hesitating. “The main question tles. Austrian minister resigns in student plagia- public health research body found. The rest they are hesitating themselves, it can increase posed by a vaccine that has been developed so rism scandal. — AFP expressed doubts to a greater or lesser extent: 29 skepticism.” quickly is ‘is it safe?’” she said. — AFP.