A U.S. judge ordered the release of Steve Bannon, a former adviser and ally of former President Donald Trump, but ordered the seizure of his passport to prevent him from fleeing the country.
Steve Bannon, 67, turned up Monday at the FBI after being charged Friday with contempt of court for refusing to appear to testify before the Investigative Committee of the Capitol Hill attack and another for refusing to provide documents following a subpoena. …
On January 6, hundreds of protesters in support of the former Republican president demanded that police invade Capitol Hill and thwart confirmation of Joe Biden’s election after Trump’s repeated baseless allegations of widespread electoral fraud.
Leaving the courtroom in Washington, the former Trump aide spoke defiantly, raising a finger and stating that “this time they contacted the wrong person“.
Bannon accused Democrat US President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of violating his free speech.
“Now let’s go on the attack, you’ll see“, it is emphasized repeatedly”.Get ready“he echoed again, using Trump’s controversial campaign line, which the former president addressed the far-right Proud Boys when he said,” Get ready. “
When asked by journalists about the meaning of veiled threats, Bannon’s lawyer explained that he would be “on the offensive” because he would “affirmatively” defend his rights in court.
The head of the campaign that brought Donald Trump victory in 2016 had a similar tone to the media when he contacted the FBI in Washington earlier that day. Before joining him, Bannon stated that his goal was “to overthrow the Biden regime.”
After taking himself to court, Steve Bannon spent several hours in federal custody and was brought before Columbia District Court Judge Robin Meriwether.
During the hearing, the prosecution did not require a preventive detention of the former Trump adviser, and the judge ordered his release pending trial, applying normal conditions in such cases, including the seizure of his passport to prevent his escape. from the country.
Bannon will also need to notify authorities of any travel he makes within the United States, and if he intends to travel overseas, he will first need to get a judge’s permission to return his passport.
The next trial is scheduled for Thursday in a virtual format at the request of Steve Bannon’s attorneys and will be held before DC Judge Carl J. Nichols, appointed during the Trump presidency.
Each of the charges against Bannon carries a penalty ranging from 30 days to one year in prison, as well as a fine of one thousand to one hundred thousand dollars. [800 euros e 87 mil euros]…
On October 22, the House of Representatives said that Steve Bannon did not respect Congress for challenging the Commission’s summons to investigate the Capitol Hill attack.
A commission of inquiry is seeking to determine the role of the former Republican president, his advisers and loved ones in preparing the invasion of Capitol Hill, which killed five people.
Timing is of the essence for this Democratic-controlled group that is threatened with dissolution if Republicans win the November 2022 legislature.
The commission, which has heard more than 150 witnesses, has issued new subpoenas to elements close to Trump, such as former White House press secretary Kayleigh Makinani or former adviser Stephen Miller.
Former Trump chief of staff, Mark Meadows, also declined to issue statements to the committee on Thursday after temporarily suspending until November 30 by a judge from the release of data requested by the commission when analyzing the request made by the former president.
The recordings include documents from Donald Trump’s closest aides and White House agendas describing his activities, trips, meetings, or phone calls.
The Commission of Inquiry responded with a statement indicating that Joe Biden had already authorized the release of the documents and that the former Trump aide should testify and warn Mark Meadows that he could be accused of contempt by Congress.
Putin has repeatedly consulted with Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu about the invasion, Europa Press told Ukraine’s chief intelligence director Vadim Skibitsky.
According to Skibitsky, it was the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is responsible for counterintelligence and espionage work, that put pressure on Gerasimov and other military agencies to agree to launch an offensive. .
However, according to the Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB considered that by the end of February sufficient preparations had already been made to guarantee the success of the Russian Armed Forces in a lightning invasion.
However, according to Kyiv, the Russian General Staff provided the Russian troops with supplies and ammunition for only three days, hoping that the offensive would be swift and immediately successful.
The head of Ukrainian intelligence also emphasized the cooperation of local residents, who always provided the Ukrainian authorities with up-to-date information about the Russian army, such as the number of soldiers or the exact location of troops.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
A Stockholm court on Monday sentenced a former Swedish intelligence officer to life in prison for spying for Russia, and his brother to at least 12 years in prison. In what is considered one of the most serious cases in Swedish counterintelligence history, much of the trial took place behind closed doors in the name of national security.
According to the prosecution, it was Russian military intelligence, the GRU, who took advantage of the information provided by the two brothers between 2011 and their arrest at the end of 2021.
Peyman Kia, 42, has held many senior positions in the Swedish security apparatus, including the army and his country’s intelligence services (Säpo). His younger brother, Payam, 35, is accused of “participating in the planning” of the plot and of “managing contacts with Russia and the GRU, including passing on information and receiving financial rewards.”
Both men deny the charges, and their lawyers have demanded an acquittal on charges of “aggravated espionage,” according to the Swedish news agency TT.
The trial coincides with another case of alleged Russian espionage, with the arrest of the Russian-born couple in late November in a suburb of Stockholm by a police team arriving at dawn in a Blackhawk helicopter.
Research website Bellingcat identified them as Sergei Skvortsov and Elena Kulkova. The couple allegedly acted as sleeper agents for Moscow, having moved to Sweden in the late 1990s.
According to Swedish press reports, the couple ran companies specializing in the import and export of electronic components and industrial technology.
The man was again detained at the end of November for “illegal intelligence activities.” His partner, suspected of being an accomplice, has been released but remains under investigation.
According to Swedish authorities, the arrests are not related to the trial of the Kia brothers.
“They can strengthen their positions. We understand that this can happen. At the same time, we do not rule out that they will announce a general mobilization,” Danilov said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online publication.
Danilov believed that this mobilization would also be convened “to exterminate as many as possible” of Russian citizens, so that “they would no longer have any problems on their territory.”
In this sense, Danilov also reminded that Russia has not given up on securing control over Kyiv or the idea of the complete “destruction” of Ukraine. “We have to be ready for anything,” he said.
“I want everyone to understand that [os russos] they have not given up on the idea of destroying our nation. If they don’t have Kyiv in their hands, they won’t have anything in their hands, we must understand this,” continued Danilov, who also did not rule out that a new Russian offensive would come from “Belarus and other territories.” .
As such, Danilov praised the decision of many of its residents who chose to stay in the Ukrainian capital when the war broke out in order to defend the city.
“They expected that there would be panic, that people would run, that there would be nothing to protect Kyiv,” he added, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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