Mel Gibson spreads conspiracy ideas about Los Angeles fires

The Los Angeles fires also hit some wealthy neighborhoods hard. Mel Gibson is one of the Hollywood stars who lost their house. The eccentric actor has repeatedly attracted attention with strange views in the past – and apparently also has a special opinion on the reasons for the fire disaster. On the TV station Fox News, he created a bizarre moment in the middle of the catastrophe with wild conspiracy ideas.

In an interview with Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham, Gibson first described how hard the disaster had hit him personally. He wasn’t able to save much from his destroyed house. “A few things, passports, papers, things like that.” Among other things, works of art, photos and rare, centuries-old books have been irretrievably lost. “It’s tragic, it makes you very sad,” Gibson said of the destruction of his home and the entire neighborhood. He has friends without a roof over their heads, with traumatized children.

Gibson is hard-pressed. And angry about the authorities’ disaster management. “Obviously some people were asleep on the job, especially our leaders,” the actor repeated criticism that he had made in recent days, particularly of California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom. “I know they messed up with the water,” Gibson said about the problem of a lack of firefighting water. California has a lot of problems and he sometimes wonders why the authorities do certain things. “Events like this make you think, well, is this intentional? It’s crazy to think something like that. But you start to think about whether there is an intention or not. What could that be? What do they want? To depopulate the state ? I don’t know it.”

The Fox News presenter, who has known Gibson personally for years, sees the moment as having come to tease out a few steeper theses from the actor. There is already talk about rethinking reconstruction, said Ingraham. The “climate folks” called for more dense living and fewer single-family homes. A template for Gibson to be outraged that the rich should be driven out.

“I can think up all sorts of horrible theories in my head, conspiracy theories and so on,” Gibson says, before offering his own. “It seems a little too fitting that there isn’t enough water, that the wind conditions are right, and that people are ready to commit arson. Have they been hired to do this or are they acting on their own? I know it “Not, but they seem to be very well equipped.”

There are a lot of questions, whispers moderator Ingraham, who demonstratively doesn’t contradict Gibson. It is not entirely clear whether Gibson really believes his theories of intentionally ruined disaster preparedness and contract arsonists or is simply in an emotional state of emergency. If he finds any clues in the remains of his home, he will let them know, Gibson concludes.