A man was arrested near the White House after setting fire to an American flag in protest of an executive decree signed by President Donald Trump, criminalizing this act, police said Tuesday.

The arrest took place on Monday night, a few hours after the Republican signed the executive decree providing for a one -year prison sentence on anyone who deliberately set fire to the US national symbol, although the Federal Supreme Court of Justice had a judgment in 1989. Right of the Constitution.

“I burn this flag in protest against this illegal fascist president based in this house,” he said using a small park in a small park not far from the White House, according to a video relaying via social networking sites and also reported US media.

He then stated that he served in the US Armed Forces to defend the right of his compatriots to “express themselves”.

“It is our right guaranteed by the first amendment (ed. Of the US Constitution) to burn this flag, no matter what the president says,” he insisted.

He then set fire to the flag, in which he had poured a flammable substance.

SECRET SERVICE agents, a police service tasked with protecting policies in the US, extinguished the fire using a fire extinguisher and brought it up.

Park Police have confirmed yesterday that the entry into arrest was arrested under a federal law that forbids fire without the authorities in federal public parks.

Donald Trump reported yesterday in the 1989 decision, argued, however, that the burning of the American flag in some cases is not protected by the first amendment, especially when it can “motivate immediate illegal action”.

He demanded from the Ministry of Justice to “prioritize the implementation” of his executive decree “in the” complete way “as” possible “.