One of the most important prisoners for the attack on the Capitol on January 6 in the United States turned out to be the son of Argentines and nephew of an important figure of the last military dictatorship in our country, according to a survey from American’s site Vice News
Frederick Klein, nicknamed ‘Freddie’, was detained a few weeks ago by the police thanks to the filming of the houses of the US Parliament.
The footage revealed he was instrumental in that event, where Trump supporters broke into Congressional headquarters, breaching security and occupying parts of the building for several hours. with a balance of four deathss.
Freddie, an active pro-Trump militant cousin of Guillermo Walter Klein, remembered for integration the team of former Minister of Economy José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz during the last dictatorship.
The capture of the Capitol on Jan. 6 by supporters of former President Donald Trump. (Reuters)
Walter Klein was Secretary of State for Economic Programming and Coordination from 1976 to 1981 and is one of the architects of the economic plan that devastated Argentina.
In September 1979 the Montoneros group blew up their house, and Klein and his family were foreseeably saved.
Freddy is the son of his brother Federico and was born in the United States. It was almost a decade serve in the Marine Corpsuntil he started working for it Trump’s 2016 campaign
When the magnate came to power, he placed several of those who were members of his campaign in secondary positions, including Freddy, who held a position at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
There, according to account Vice News, Freddy was heard, with a very right wing tendency, praise the military leadership that de facto ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983.
The clashes during the attack on the Capitol. ) (AP)
I had warm feelings about the Argentinian juntaHis father is Argentinian and he expressed some frustration with the way history remembers that brutal dictatorship, ”a former State Department official told the US newspaper.
The Capitol videos show that Jan. 6 through Small in the first attacker waveand encouraged protesters to step on the scene and seize it. “We need new people,” he said for a while used a police shield to attack the agents who tried to control it.
In the case, prosecutors say Klein ignored police orders and could only calm him down when they sprayed him with pepper spray. Now is facing six charges for his role in the uprising
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