Nancy Pelosi says her husband, Paul Pelosi, is stable and on the mend

The president of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said on Monday that her husband, Paul Pelosi, is in the process of recovering after the attack he suffered last Friday at the couple’s home in San Francisco , California.

“Paul is making steady progress in what will be a long recovery process,” the legislator wrote on her Twitter account.

The leader of the House of Representatives also took the opportunity to thank the people who have sent messages of encouragement to her and her husband, as well as the team at the Zuckerberg hospital, in the Californian city, where her husband is being treated.

Likewise, the US Department of Justice and the District Attorney of San Francisco announced, in parallel, a series of criminal charges against David DePape, accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer in his home. Among the crimes he is charged with are attempted murder and attempted kidnapping.

The man of 42 years old, originally from Canada, was arrested the same day as the attack, when the San Francisco Police arrived at the scene after hitting Pelosi’s husband with a hammer in the head.

The San Francisco district attorney, who is handling the case at the state level, indicated on Friday that the attacker appears to have had “political motives.”

Paul Pelosi was attacked in San Francisco when he was at the family home. The aggressor burst into the house shouting “Where is Nancy?”, although she was in Washington DC at the time, and attacked her husband with a hammer to the head.

The investigation is still open, but it is already known that the aggressor forced his entry through the back door of the house and He was carrying another hammer, strapping, a rope and adhesive tape, according to the prosecutors.

The husband of the president of the Lower House was taken to the Zuckerberg General Hospital, in San Francisco, and intervened with success of a skull fracture and various serious injuries to the right arm and hands.

The attack took place less than two weeks before the legislative elections on November 8, in the that the entire House of Representatives and a third of the seats in the Senate will be renewed.