Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: However , journalist Andrew Gimson , writing in The Spectator questioned official version of events , and so did the German newsmagazine , Stern and the BBC .
Simplified: However , journalist Andrew Gimson , writing in The Spectator , cast doubt upon the official version of events . Similar questions were also raised by the German newsmagazine , Stern and the BBC .