(Washington) American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion to the families of the victims of a massacre in a school, which he had denied, was dismissed on Tuesday in his final appeal before the Supreme Court of the United States.
The Court does not provide reasons for its decision to reject Alex Jones’ appeal, which denounced “a financial death sentence” and assured that this amount could never be paid.
Alex Jones, radio host and owner of the far-right site Infowars, presented a killing that occurred in 2012 at the Sandy Hook school, in Connecticut (north-east), as a staging.
His lies had gone viral, leading to the harassment of families of victims of the massacre, where 20 children and 6 adults died. Families, claiming to have received death or even rape threats from his supporters, took him to court and won their case.
But Alex Jones declared personal bankruptcy in 2022 and filed for bankruptcy of his company, Free Speech Systems, based in Texas (south). In June 2024, a Texas judge approved the liquidation of his personal assets, estimated at approximately $9 million, to allow him to begin compensating families.
