Music Samorrissey Move Case against a virtual troll for continuous defamation has been in years to decades receive ‘disturbing, harmful and slanderous’ messages from the accused and put his family at risk for writing

Morrissey began a lawsuit against an alleged virtual troll that would have conducted a “decades’ defamatory campaign” against the former singer of The Smiths.

According to the website Music Business Worldwidethe singer hired the British law firm Levy & Mcrae To process a person suspected of publishing “disturbing, harmful and slanderous” content about him “almost daily… several times a day”.

According to the letter of cease and giving up sent by the lawyers, the accused would also have pursued Morrissey Physically, leaving “tickets written in your home and for him”, acts supposedly captured by security cameras. In addition, he would have placed family members of the singer in “significant risk of physical and emotional damage.”

The letter also accuses the individual of inserting “far-right policy” in publications to build a distorted public image of Morrisseyfeeding a “harmful, inaccurate and defamatory global narrative” that would have been reinforced by the press.

The document points out that Morrissey He is “pacifist, apolitical and never joined any party or voted.”

With this action, the lawyers require the accused to “interrupt immediately and permanently any mention of the name of our client on the internet”. The case was also referred to the police.

The legal measure would have been motivated by a “far -reaching investigation” conducted by the digital protection agency Web Sheriffwhich revealed a “campaign of fraud, misinformation and defamation” against the singer over decades.

THE Web Sheriff stated in a statement to Music Business Worldwide who has already identified a “person of interest” and hopes to reveal others involved in the United Kingdom, Europe and the US, all linked to a “sophisticated attempt” to falsely associate Morrissey the racist and far right ideologies.

“The goal of fraud seems to be to support the perpetrators of these ideologies, falsely linking an influential artist to his hate speech,” says the text.

Morrissey has already faced criticism in the past for controversial political statements – especially for its brief support for the extinct party For BRITAIN “But he always denied any alignment with the far right.”

Still, in recent years, the singer has been involved in several controversies, including public friction with the band SparksComplaints about the fact that “no one” throws their albums due to an alleged war against freedom of expression in the UK, and disagreements with the former bandmate Johnny Marr.

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