Marc van der Linden and Rick Evers are no longer allowed to hurt each other online | Backbiting

Evers filed a defamation lawsuit against his former editor-in-chief at the magazine Royalty. He stated that Van der Linden had posted a number of “harmful and unlawful tweets” about him.

Van der Linden’s lawyers believed that it was not their client who had spoken “unlawfully”, but Evers. The judge has now decided that both men must stop spreading hurtful messages about each other.

“It is tragic that an issue between two colleagues and former friends had to come to court at all,” Van der Linden responds. “I wanted to settle from the start, but the other party did not want that.”

Van der Linden is pleased that the judge has now recorded a number of matters. “It has also been a wise and expensive lesson: never respond to social media again, no matter what nonsense is said. I wish Rick the best.”

Evers is satisfied with the verdict, he said through his lawyer. In addition, like Van der Linden, he is disappointed that the case ultimately had to go to trial.

Van der Linden had also requested the court to ask Evers to stop making “unlawful statements” about him. But the judge did not agree.

The two royal family experts worked together for more than ten years Royalty. They can still appeal the verdict.