The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer told police he wanted to hold.
The Democratic leader hostage and “break her kneecaps” to show other members of Congress there were “consequences to actions,” authorities said Monday.
In a chilling federal complaint, officials say David DePape, 42, carrying zip ties, tape and a rope in a backpack, broke into the couple’s San Francisco home early Friday morning, went upstairs where 82-year-old Paul Pelosi was sleeping, and demanded to talk to “Nancy.”
“There were reportedly at least 68 migrants on the boat,” Kokkalas added.
However, Greek authorities said they had recently witnessed an increase in attempted entries through the country’s islands and Turkish land border.A coast guard vessel, a helicopter and two boats are involved in the rescue operation against the seething wind, the coast guard stated in a statement.
Greece was on the front line of a European migration crisis in 2015 and 2016, when about a million refugees fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan arrived in the country, mainly via Turkey, reported Reuters.
“This house and the speaker herself were specifically targets,” San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said at a Monday evening news conference announcing state charges against DePape, including attempted murder.
“This was politically motivated,” Jenkins said. She implored the public to “watch the words that we say and to turn down the volume of our political rhetoric.”
Investigators believe DePape had been researching in advance to target Pelosi, Jenkins said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“This was not something that he did at the spur of the moment,” she said.