Dutchman ‘who almost broke the Internet’ to go on trial

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THE HAGUE: A Dutchman accused of launching an unprecedented cyberattack that reportedly “almost broke the Internet” is to go on trial Nov 1 on charges of masterminding the 2013 incident that slowed down web traffic world-wide. 

But Sven Olaf Kamphuis, 39, denounced the case against him, and told the AD daily newspaper in a Skype interview that he would not appear at the court in the southern Dutch city of Dordrecht. He will be represented by his lawyers.