My friend was literally in attendance when the attack happened.
People spreading obvious lies like this need to be held to account.
Or maybe spread lies about child predator richard hall instead, taste of their own medicine.
It's disappointing, but probably inevitable, to see that kind of "crisis actor" type of conspiracy mongering back it's way over here from the States.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A claim that the Manchester Arena terror attack was staged by government agencies and did not kill or injure anyone is "absurd and fantastical", a High Court judge has ruled.
Suicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, detonated a home-made, shrapnel-packed device in the Manchester Arena - with hundreds injured as the blast dispersed thousands of nuts and bolts.
He is said to have made money from selling books and DVDs outlining various conspiracy theories he promotes, as well as speaking at events and posting videos online.
A BBC investigation in 2022 found that he shared a video demonstrating that he set up a camera to film Eve, who is disabled and in a wheelchair since the attack, to see whether she could actually walk.
Mr Hall, representing himself, argued that there is no "first-hand tangible evidence", like CCTV footage or photographs of injuries, to prove the father and daughter were at the arena or were hurt as a result of the blast.
The judge continued: "Whilst acknowledging that issues as to the claimants' presence at the attack and the attack itself are separate and distinct, once the defendant's general hypothesis has been rejected, as I have rejected it, it is unrealistic to maintain that the claimants were not there and were either not severely injured at all or acquired their injuries earlier and by a different mechanism than the bombing.
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