{"product_id":"vragen-36676-mijn-huisgenoot-is-bevriend-met-een-jongen-uit-bulgarije-hij-is-al-18-geweest-en-ook-volgens-zijn-l","title":"Assistance with legal questions about libel and slander","description":"\u003ch4\u003e Questioner\u003c\/h4\u003e \nMy roommate is friends with a boy from Bulgaria, he has been 18 and according to his country he is also an adult. I am asking this question for my roommate, also an adult, because I am worried about this situation.\n\n The boy from Bulgaria, I will call him Marco, wants to come to the Netherlands to live\/work\/study, but his mother does not want to know anything about it. According to Marco and his friends, his mother is not quite right in the head. She is obsessive, controlling and very angry very quickly. She also wants her son to do exactly what she wants, and coming to the Netherlands does not fit in with her picture.\n\n My question is: Can she use Skype and Facebook chat conversations to file a case against my roommate?\n \nShe accuses him of brainwashing my roommate Marco and making him a slave by sending him money every now and then. To make sure Marco wasn't a 'Catfish' when he sent Marco money, and because his mother also wanted proof that Ivan existed, my roommate asked Marco for a picture of him with his ID. My roommate sent the same back. Marco's mother calls that a criminal offense. She also says it is a criminal offense that my roommate talked to Marco about locking her up in a mental institution because she is crazy, and when he was really angry about her behavior he once said 'I'd wish she'd die.' or 'I'd kill her if I could.'. I know that neither my roommate nor Marco would ever really send her to an institution or have plans to kill her, this was expressed in frustration about her behavior. And even I have expressed my wishes that she would disappear, because she is making Marco's life miserable. But this information, which she got from private conversations between Marco and my roommate, she wants to use to file a case against him. By the way, she is the wife of a retired judge and is also a lawyer herself, which scares me.\n \nMarco's mother recently contacted me, and also let me know that she did this with other family and friends of my roommate, to paint a black picture of him.\n\n I don't know what I can do about this and what she can do to my roommate. We were both very shocked by this, that's why I'm looking for help here.\n\n\u003ch4\u003e Lawyer\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n If they are both adults, they both have the right to go and stand where they want. However, we are not aware of the law of that country. This site is only focused on Dutch law. The fact that they show each other an ID is not punishable because they are both adults. It would only be punishable here if the ID were abused. It is also punishable to denigrate others. This is libel and slander and can be reported.\n\n Please note, we know nothing about the law there and how the people are there, whether they are corrupt, and what the situation is like, so I can't judge that either\n\n","brand":"Rechtswinkel.nl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55016220623197,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rechtswinkel.nl\/en\/products\/vragen-36676-mijn-huisgenoot-is-bevriend-met-een-jongen-uit-bulgarije-hij-is-al-18-geweest-en-ook-volgens-zijn-l","provider":"Rechtswinkel.nl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}