Another verdict condemns the propagator of conspiracy theories in the US to pay 45 million dollars

• USA Sanctions 4.1 million to a propagator of conspiracy theories

• Alex Jones The company of the conspiracy theorist declares bankruptcy in the midst of an investigation for his denialism in a school massacre in the US

A

jury ordered this Friday that the well-known broadcaster and propagator of conspiracy theories

pay 45.2 million dollars as a "punitive penalty" to the parents of one of the victims of the

where 20 children and 6 adults died in 2012.

This is the second verdict received by Jones, founder of the

since on Thursday the same jury ordered the far-rightist to pay 4.1 million dollars in compensation to

and

parents of little

6 years old, who died in that shooting.

Punitive sanctions are contemplated in those cases in which someone has engaged in particularly harmful behaviour.

From his

Jones spent years spreading the theory that the shooting at the Sandy Hook school in

was a "farce", before which several of the families of the victims sued him.

After the complaints began to be filed, the radio commentator

and went on to acknowledge that the shooting was real.

Even so, the theory propagated by Jones led several of his followers to

including those of little Jesse, whom they accused of lying about their son's death for political purposes.

The nearly $50 million Jones will have to pay the plaintiffs is well

originally sought.

Last Friday, Jones's company,

declared bankruptcy, in a move that the victims interpreted precisely as part of a strategy to reduce the amount of the then foreseeable penalty.

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