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 "terrorist" and criminal. But in the following months Modamani's image was shared on Facebook on a series of anonymous accounts, alongside posts claiming he was responsible for militant attacks and murder, including the Brussels Airport bombing of March 2016. He said: ‘Access to that reported content was quickly disabled, so we do not believe there is any basis for him to seek an injunction.’

One post, which used the image, falsely linked Modamani to an incident in Berlin last month, when a group set fire to a sleeping homeless man on a train station platform, Jun said.
A Syrian refugee is suing Facebook after the company failed to remove posts with his image that accuse him of being a terrorist.