One of the main detainees for the assault 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 of our country, As revealed by an investigation of the American site Vice News.
Federico Klein, called “Freddie”, he was arrested a couple of weeks ago by the police thanks to the recordings of the cameras of the American Parliament.
The footage showed he had a major involvement in the incident, where Trump supporters stormed Congress and violated security and occupied parts of the building for several hours. with a balance of four deads.
Freddie, an active pro-Trump militant, is nephew of William Walter Klein, Remembered to integrate the team of former Minister of Economy José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz during the last dictatorship.
The capture of Capitol on January 6 by supporters of former President Donald Trump. (Reuters)
Walter Klein was Secretary of State for Programming and Economic 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 saved providentially.
Freddy is the son of his brother Frederic and was born in the United States. It was almost a decade serving in the Marines, Until he started working for the Trump campaign in 2016.
When the tycoon came to power to place in secondary positions several of those members of his campaign, including Freddy, who held a position in the State Department.
There, he explains Vice News, Freddy was heard, with a very right-wing tendency, to praise the military summit that governed de facto Argentina between 1976 and 1983.
The clashes during the assault on the Capitol. ) (AP)
“He had warm feelings about the Argentine board. His father is Argentine and expressed some frustration at how history remembers this brutal dictatorship, “a former State Department official told the American newspaper.
The videos of the Capitol show that January 6 a Klein in the first wave of attackers, Encouraging protesters to enter the site and take it. “We need new people,” he said, meanwhile he wore a police shield to assault officers who sought to contain it.
In the case, prosecutors point out that Klein ignored police orders and was recently able to calm him down when they threw pepper spray at him. Now he faces six charges for his role in the insurrection.
Clarín writing
DV