of secretly recording her to see if she was lying about her injuries. they ve got no right to do what they have done, taking our stories individually and ripping them apart. today, i ve started off on myjourney to go around all of these places. that conspiracy theorist is called richard d hall. he s described how he tracked down lisa and other manchester arena survivors because he thinks the attack was staged. he makes money from promoting his theories in talks, online videos and even a book. such conspiracies echo those of alex jones, the host of the conspiracy theory website infowars, and he was ordered to pay $19 million after falsely claiming the sandy hook school attack was a hoax. messages seen by the bbc show how online abuse citing these types of conspiracies have been sent to those affected by uk terror attacks. a representative survey of 4,000 people carried out
a fifth think terror victims are not telling the truth about what happened to them. those people susceptible to conspiracy beliefs have been egged on, in some sense, because of covid. we were all stuck in our homes, online, desperate for information. for one survivor, enough is enough. martin hibbert, who was seriously injured in the manchester arena attack with his daughter, eve, is preparing to bring libel action against hall, who says he spied on eve from a vehicle outside her home. i m all for freedom of speech and all that, but it crosses i the line when you are saying i m an actor or i ve not got - a spinal cord injury, l or eve s not disabled. she is not in a wheelchair. i visited the market stall where hall works. he insists i am wrong about how he operates. you are profiting from the worst day of these people s lives. do you realise that? how does that make you feel? if you read my book, all the answers are in there. i have looked at your book and in there there are claims
about the victims that are contrary to the evidence. richard hall has since posted a new video saying he didn t put a camera outside the home of eve hibbert but admitted to leaving a camera rolling in his van, parked in a public place. he says his door to door inquiries are polite, that he and others promote. the iranian president ebrahim raisi has repeated his warning as university students have continued their protests across the country. earlier authorities had warned to end demonstrations by today. videos shared online show confrontations between students and members of the government linked basij paramilitary force on a number of university campuses. well, the protests in iran have been followed around the world with celebrities joining the cause. the band coldplay have performed an iranian protest song
to terms with her injuries. two years later, a conspiracy theorist turned up at the boatyard where she worked, posing as a customer with the aim of secretly recording her to see if she was lying about her injuries. they ve got no right to do what they have done, taking our stories individually and ripping them apart. today, i ve started off on myjourney to go around all of these places. that conspiracy theorist is called richard d hall. he s described how he tracked down lisa and other manchester arena survivors because he thinks the attack was staged. he makes money from promoting his theories in talks, online videos and even a book. messages seen by the bbc show how online abuse citing these types of conspiracies have been sent to those affected by uk terror attacks. a representative survey of 4,000 people carried out by king s college london suggest the pandemic has made this worse, with a third saying it has made them more suspicious of official explanations of terror attacks.