Belgian court rules that killer doctor has "the right to be forgotten"
by Gianna Iacino
On 29 April 2016, the Belgian Court of Cassation decided that a newspaper has to anonymise an article about a deadly car accident in its online archive. The plaintiff is a medical doctor.
A doctor caused a drunk-driving accident that killed two people two decades ago, and the Court ruled that he has the right to have his name deleted from the newspaper's online archives in connection with the crime. (Photo: public domain)
More than 20 years ago, in 1994, the plaintiff caused a car accident due to drunk driving. Two people died in that…
