Sandy Hook shooting: conspirator Alex Jones ordered to pay 4.1 million dollars

Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is best known for disputing the veracity of the 9/11 attacks, the Sandy Hook school massacre, and other events.

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He had assured for years that the Sandy Hook shootings in the United States were staged by opponents of guns.

American conspirator Alex Jones was sentenced Thursday evening August 4 by a Texas court to pay just over $ 4 million in damages to the parents of a six-year-old boy killed in Sandy Hook, during the worst school killing ever in the United States.

And Alex Jones could soon have to pay much more.

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For several years, thanks to his videos and his radio show where he regularly asserted that

was only a set-up, Alex Jones made tens of millions of dollars.

Follower of conspiracy theories, he drained hundreds of thousands of spectators.

Spectators, some of whom then participated in waves of cyber-harassment and even death threats against the parents of the children killed at Sandy Hook.

Ten families of victims filed a defamation suit against Alex Jones.

Two more trials in September

And if this supporter of Donald Trump, affiliated with the far right, has since recognized that the killing, which left 26 dead including 20 schoolchildren, had indeed taken place and was not a scene, he is now caught up by Justice.

A Texas court sentenced him on Thursday for the first time to pay just over $4 million in damages to the parents of a six-year-old boy killed in Sandy Hook.

The same court must still set this Friday a fine which could be much higher.

And two other trials of the same type are expected in September.

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