He is the source of the terrible rumor that the Sandy Hook shootings in the United States in 2012 were only staged. Alex Jones, a famous American conspirator already sentenced to pay almost a billion dollars to the families of victims of this tragedy will have to pay an additional 473 million dollars, in accordance with the decision of an American judge on Thursday.
Infowars site owner claimed relatives of students and staff killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook School in Connecticut were actors and that the killing was staged by opponents of guns . A tenacious conspiracy theory that has spread across the internet.
“Hateful and malicious”
With his company, Free Speech Systems, Alex Jones launched “attacks on plaintiffs for almost a decade, including during the trial, hateful, malicious and unjustified behavior that harmed the plaintiffs”, estimated the magistrate of the Connecticut, Barbara Bellis, who presided over her trial. She ruled that Alex Jones’ behavior had been “deliberate and malicious” and therefore ordered him to pay more than $473 million in damages.
A jury in Waterbury, Connecticut, not far from the establishment, had already decided in October that Alex Jones should pay the families of eight victims, as well as an FBI agent present on the day of the tragedy, 965 million dollars compensation for defamation and moral prejudice.