The American founder of the conspiracy site had claimed on his site that the massacre in an American school in Connecticut was only a staging led by opponents of firearms.
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A very heavy fine. The famous far-right American conspirator Alex Jones was sentenced on Friday August 5 in Texas, to pay a fine of $45.2 million (more than 44 million euros) to the parents of a slain boy in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, the worst ever in an American school, which he denied was real.
The founder of the Infowars site had already been ordered on Thursday to pay more than four million dollars in damages to Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, whose six-year-old son died in the massacre. in this Connecticut school.
Follower of conspiracy theories Alex Jones, absent during the verdict on Friday, had against all evidence asserted on its site that the massacre was only a scene piloted by opponents of firearms.
A young man armed with a semi-automatic rifle had killed 20 children and six adults in this Connecticut establishment, causing fear in the United States and relaunching the debate on measures to regulate firearms sales.
These sentences are only the first of a series of proceedings brought by the relatives of the victims. Several families had sued him for compensation, while 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.