Final resort: A file photo of a Syrian refugee using her phone moments after arriving at a beach on the Greek island of Kos. Modamani is suing Facebook after his image was shared on Facebook on a series of anonymous accounts, alongside posts claiming he was responsible for militant attacks and murder, despite his repeated requests for the social network to take the posts down.
LONDON: A Syrian refugee whose selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel went viral is suing Facebook for defamation, his lawyer said, after the social networking site failed to take down a series of posts accusing him of being a militant and criminal.
Anas Modamani, a 19-year-old refugee from Damascus, was pictured in September 2015 taking a selfie with Merkel during her visit to a refugee shelter in Berlin's Spandau district.
