Welcome to the festival of conspiracy theories: Sussex hosts jamboree for people who claim that 9/11 and Lee Rigby’s murder were a hoax and Covid vaccines are a mind control plot

Covid anti-vaxxers and other highly controversial conspiracy theorists have reportedly told children at village parties that some of the most horrific terror attacks of the 21st century were fake.

Conspiracy theorists reportedly held talks at the Freedom Music Festival in Netherfield, East Sussex, discussing their ideas at the show, billed as a family-friendly event.

‘Headline’ acts including anti-vaxxer David Icke reportedly told children of terror atrocities such as the 7/7 bombings in London and the 9/11 attacks in New York were government inside jobs and that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was fake.

While other speakers went so far as to claim the brutal murder British soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby, hacked to death by Islamic extremists in 2013, was a hoax.

Michael Manoel Chaves, who proudly boasts online as one of the UK’s leading conspiracy theorists, led the lecture on the murder of Fusilier Rigby, with The times he reportedly showed those in attendance gruesome blood spatter photos as he questioned the 25-year-old’s murder.

Private Lee Rigby (pictured) was killed in a terror attack when two jihadists tried to behead him outside his barracks in South East London in 2013

In his “Mad Mix of Conspiracy Theories” workshop, the anti-vax leader also reportedly showed photos of the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre in the US and 7/7 bombings, while insisting that those who died were killed by the government – before claiming others were “crisis actors” – a conspiracy theorists term for people who are paid by the government to stage disasters.

Headlining the three-day festival, which ended on Sunday, was conspiracy theorist David Icke, who thinks the world is run by a cabal of alien lizards, The Times added.

Australian anti-vax campaigner Monica Smit was one of those pictured attending the music festival for conspiracy theorists

The event was also attended by Australian anti-vaxxer Monica Smit, who organized lockdown protests in her home country. She was filmed talking to festival goers about being ‘cancelled’ from social media.

Elsewhere, the festival featured portraits of whistleblowers Edward Snowdon and Julian Assange, among others, as well as War and Peace author Leo Tolstoy, with a provocative anti-establishment quote that read, “Governments are not only unnecessary, but are harmful and deeply immoral institutions.”

The weekend event was set up by Hope Sussex – and the organization is run by a former member of a far-right political group who has been investigated by Ofsted for running an illegal school.

Hope Sussex came under fire last week after it was revealed that children at the school were taught how to wield a sword and fire a crossbow, while those responsible for the site allegedly told young people they were ‘at war’ with the state.

The organization insists it is not a school, but “a community center that rents its facilities to enable homeschooling families to supplement their children’s education with sound and critical-thinking teachers.”

However, the group’s leaders, based near Battle in East Sussex, include a former supporter of the far-right British National Party before they were expelled, according to The Times.

Among the portraits on display was one of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who wrote War and Peace. It had the quote, “Governments are not only unnecessary, but are harmful and deeply immoral institutions.”

The weekend event was set up by Hope Sussex – and an organization whose leaders include a member of a far-right political group investigated by Ofsted for running an illegal school

Schools watchdog Ofsted is investigating the group, which is reportedly encouraging parents to remove their children from regular state education.

Hope Sussex claimed teaching children crossbows was part of a history lesson – taught by William Coleshill, an anti-vax activist who was suspended by the Conservative Party for alleged racism and was part of a group of protesters who attacked Sir Keir Starmer outside parliament last year.

In addition to reportedly telling kids that the Twin Tower attacks were an inside job by the US government, the school is also hosting a “science event” lectures by conspiracy theorists, with one, David Adleman, reportedly discussing the negative health impacts of 5G – a theory debunked by scientists.

Among the founders of the school is Sadie Single, who was expelled from the BNP and was allegedly associated by the anti-fascist organization Hope not Hate with a neo-Nazi group in her native Australia – a claim denied by Hope Sussex.

Sadie was previously filmed at an anti-lockdown protest in March 2021.

While her husband Matthew Single, also a former BNP member, has spoken out in his opposition to the government.

“They’re coming to get our kids. . . We must be willing to step outside the comfort zone of simply protesting and demonstrating with placards and megaphones – we have our army in the field, now we must move forward with more specific action,” he wrote in a blog post.

MailOnline has reached out to Hope Sussex for comment.