Evan Neumann, a rioter who stormed the Capitol on January 6, found himself on the FBI’s Most Wanted list after he harmed police officers trying to defend the grounds. Now Neumann has fled the US for Belarus, illegally crossing the border and demanding asylum.

Reporting by state-run television in Belarus seems to paint Neumann in a favorable light. This, despite the fact that he faces charges of “illegal entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, as well as … a$$aulting, resisting and obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder.”

Neumann denies the charges. He explained his situation to the Belarusian station:

They added my photo to the FBI’s Most Wanted Criminals list, asking for public assistance to identify me. And some of my friends warned me about this. I have many friends working for the government. I knew that they would immediately identify me, and therefore left the first thing. I started hiding, traveling across America from one point to another. I hired a lawyer. And the lawyer said that I could go to Europe on a business trip. This is why I planned it for my bag company. The lawyer said it was good because it would buy time.

That’s actually pretty incriminating, Evan. He went on to promote the same kind of “false flag” theory espoused by ultranationalist Tucker Carlson, saying that no one actually went into the Capitol through broken windows:

When I was at the Capitol, no one entered through the windows, there were hundreds of people, and after the man broke the window and invited us, told us to come in, no one did. And the government has been creating these situations since the 1990s, which they test on us, then calling it a terr0rist event or something like that.

There is, of course, video footage of rioters coming through windows.

Neumann first fled to Ukraine, and after noticing law enforcement following him, crossed the border into Belarus on August 15th, where he was detained.

Belarus has no extradition treaty with the United States.

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