United States: conspirator Alex Jones sentenced to pay 45 million dollars for having denied a killing – Le Figaro

The day before, the founder of the Infowars site had already been ordered to pay more than 4 million dollars in damages to a couple whose six-year-old son died in the massacre at the Sandy Hook school in 2012. Twenty children and six adults were killed. Notorious far-right conspirator Alex Jones was sentenced in Texas on Friday to pay a $45.2 million fine to the parents of a boy killed in the worst school shooting ever American, which he had denied the reality. The day before, the founder of the Infowars site had already been ordered to pay more than four million dollars in damages to Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, whose six-year-old son had died in the massacre at Sandy Hook School in 2012. Read also“Shootings are often planned long ago”: inside the mind of a school killer six adults in this workbench Connecticut, causing fear in the United States and relaunching the debate on measures to regulate firearms sales. Alex Jones, a well-known figure on the far right and follower of conspiracy theories, had, against all , claimed on its site that the massacre was just a staged show by gun opponents. “Stop the monetization of misinformation and lies” young deceased boy, had launched to the jury: You have the capacity to send a message to the whole country, even to the world (…). And it is to stop Alex Jones. Stop the monetization of misinformation and lies”. Wesley Ball had asked them to “make sure he couldn’t do it again.” These sentences are only the first in a series of proceedings brought by the relatives of the victims. Several families had sued him for compensation. To read also Chicago killing: the “desires for carnage” of a rapper without stories He had finally publicly admitted the reality of the killing, while refusing to cooperate with the courts. Judges in Texas and Connecticut had therefore condemned him by default to pay damages to the plaintiffs, while leaving it to jurors to set their amount. Other financial sanctions should follow soon and could deprive Alex Jones of his platform. The killings – recurring in the United States – are often the subject of conspiracy theories questioning the reality of the facts, which sometimes provoke harassment of relatives of victims, accused of lying.SEE ALSO – Alex Jones is called to testify at the Travis County Courthouse during his defamation trial, in Austin, United States, August 2, 2022.