Alex Jones, a notorious far-right disinformer, had claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012 was merely a staging aimed at taking away the constitutional right to own a gun.
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He claimed that the drama was staged, without feeling the slightest regard for the victims and their loved ones. Alex Jones, an American far-right conspirator, will have to compensate several parents of schoolchildren massacred by a killer in Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012 in the northeast of the United States.
According to New York Times (in English) and one of the attorneys for parents of students, a Connecticut judge ruled that Alex Jones – known for his conspiracy theories and false information – was civilly liable and therefore subject to the payment of damages after the complaints in defamation of six families in 2018. On December 14, 2012, a 20-year-old gunman broke into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., shooting 20 children and six adults. This senseless massacre had stunned American society, then President Barack Obama even cried during a speech, and provoked yet another debate on the control of personal weapons.
But for Alex Jones, founder of the far-right site Infowars and now banned on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, the Sandy Hook massacre would have been a staging – with actors playing the role of grieving parents. – led by the US government to take away Americans’ constitutional right to own a firearm. The plaintiff parents had taken Alex Jones to court, demanding that he present accounting documents proving that he had made millions of dollars by spreading such misinformation. He has since publicly admitted that the murder of children was real.
“Mr. [Alex] Jones has had the opportunity to collaborate several times [avec la justice] but since he chose to refuse to provide evidence to the court for more than two years, the court had no choice but to make the decision it made today “, welcomed one of the parents’ lawyers, Chris Mattei, in a statement. The lawyer admitted, however, that “the battle continued to shed light on the deep evil that Mr. [Alex] Jones inflicted on these families “.
Especially since a judge in Texas recently made the same libel rulings in favor of three other Sandy Hook families. Jurors in Connecticut and Texas must now decide how much compensation Alex Jones will have to pay each of the families of children killed.