It won't take long for them to appear.
Barely hours after the collapse of a bridge in Baltimore (Maryland) hit by a container ship on Tuesday, several conspiracy theories point to a deliberate attack, despite the absence of any trace of criminal act according to authorities.
The Singapore-flagged ship struck a pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday, which collapsed like a house of cards.
Six people, workers who were repairing potholes in the infrastructure, missing are presumed dead.
In the process, users of X (formerly Twitter) and other platforms implicated a whole host of supposed perpetrators, ranging from terrorists to Israel.
Among the most popular theories, we find that put forward by the British influencer born in the United States Andrew Tate, who assured his nine million X subscribers that the container ship Dali had been the victim of a “cyber attack”.
“A cyber attack is likely”
“The lights go out and he deliberately heads towards the bridge pier,” says the masculinist influencer accused among others in Romania in a case of human trafficking by an organized gang.
“Foreign agents attack digital infrastructure.
Nothing is untouchable,” he asserts.
Speculations taken up by the founder of the conspiracy media InfoWars, Alex Jones.
“It seems deliberate to me.
A cyberattack is likely.
The Third World War has already begun,” assures the man who was convicted for questioning the reality of a massacre in the Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012 in the United States, in which 20 schoolchildren and six adults lost their lives. life.
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While the exact causes of the collapse remain to be determined, the tragedy occurred due to “a momentary loss of propulsion” of the ship, according to the Singapore port authorities.
On video surveillance images, we see the container ship's lights go out twice in the minutes before the collision and smoke around the ship.
Israel, Gaza or even the Islamic State…
The authorities immediately assured that they had not detected any malicious act.
“There is absolutely no indication that this was a terrorist act,” said Richard Worley, Baltimore police chief.
An opinion shared by the Governor of the State of Maryland Wes Moore, who affirms that there is “no credible evidence of a terrorist attack”.
But these statements did not prevent the deluge of rumors about a resolution demanding an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, a Palestinian territory devastated by war.
“Did Israel just hit the US for not using its veto yesterday?
», asks a user whose post has been consulted by more than 300,000 accounts.
Others see the hand of the Islamic State group while some question the initiatives in favor of diversity taken by certain companies.
Still others say the bridge collapse is a “decoy” to distract people.