AN UNPRECEDENTED court order in which a German alleged cyber bully was ordered to remove defamatory material about his Namibian ex-girlfriend from his Facebook page may now be served on him through a newspaper advertisement, it was ordered in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.
Since Acting Judge Esi Schimming-Chase granted an interdict in which she ordered the removal of defamatory material from an offensive Facebook page on January 24, the deputy sheriff of the High Court has not been able to physically track down the creator of the page, Klaus Weichhaus, to formally serve the court order on him.
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