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Dec 6, 1999
Letters To The Editor // Scientology -- news article omits reason church has been targeted — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Source: Seattle Times
Your Nov. 15 article about Scientologists in a case in Marseille, France ("Former Scientology leader guilty of fraud in France," World digest), omits the larger picture, which includes why Scientologists have been targeted. The article also did not mention the disappearance of the court files in this trial. Documents critical to the defense were among the files destroyed, and the president of the Marseille court admitted that court personnel were responsible for it. There is also no question about Scientology's religiosity ...
Nov 28, 1999
John Travolta's alien nation — Washington Post
Nov 20, 1999
French Scientologists sentenced in fraud — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
A former French Scientology official has been sentenced to two years in prison for fraud, along with four other Scientologists who received suspended sentences of six months to two years. Xavier Delamare, former head of Scientology's branch in the southern French city of Marseille, was sentenced Monday in connection with a 10-year-old case in which he was found guilty of operating sham "purification" courses between 1987 and 1990. As with the others, Delamare will not go to prison because 18 months ...
Nov 16, 1999
Scientology leader jailed for fraud // Group denounces French trial as inquisition — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jon Henley
Source: The Guardian (UK)
In another blow to the controversial Church of Scientology's battle to be recognised as a religion rather than a sect, a French court yesterday found one of its former leaders guilty of fraud and sentenced him to six months in prison. Xavier Delamare, a former regional Scientology leader in south-east France, was given a further 18 month suspended sentence by the Marseille court while four other members accused of fraud, violence and illegally practising medicine were given suspended sentences of six ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 15, 1999
French scientologists guilty of fraud — BBC News
Type: Press
Source: BBC News
A court in the French city of Marseilles has found five members of the Church of Scientology guilty on fraud charges over courses offered by the organisation. The former leader of the church in southern France, Xavier Delamare, was sentenced to two years in jail, including 18 months suspended, and fined 16,000 dollars for manipulating people into giving money to the church. He will not return to jail because he has spent 17 weeks in pre-trial detention. Four more people were ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 21, 1999
World briefing / France: Scientologists on trial — New York Times
Sep 20, 1999
Scientology trial opens in France — BBC News
Sep 9, 1999
Files destroyed in Scientology case — The Guardian (UK)
Sep 9, 1999
Loss of Scientology files studied — New York Times
Sep 9, 1999
Scientology faces French ban — BBC News
May 9, 1999
Is Scientology above the law? — France 2
Mar 29, 1999
Abroad: Critics public and private keep pressure on Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Lucy Morgan
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Scientology leaders say they want peace. They say they want to stay out of court. But with both foes at home and foes abroad, that goal may be elusive. The spiritual home of the Church of Scientology is in Clearwater, but for many years now its leaders have had worldwide ambitions. But as disciples have carried L. Ron Hubbard's teachings away from America's shore, the reception has been almost universally chilly at best – and at times openly hostile. At one ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 4, 1999
Scientology's Europe chief sees progress — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)
Jan 1, 1999
"When Scholars Know Sin" forum debate / Mea Culpa! Mea Culpa! / J. Gordon Melton responds — Skeptic magazine
More: link
Feb 8, 1998
Scientology got blame for French suicide — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: pqasb.pqarchiver.com
Aug 10, 1997
Scientologists win partial court victory — The Guardian (UK)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: The Guardian (UK)
ON JULY 28, an appeal court in Lyon reduced the sentences of six members of the Scientology movement charged with responsibility for the suicide of one of their followers. The court also ruled that the "Church of Scientology" was entitled to call itself a religion. In so doing, the appeal court gave the movement created by the science-fiction writer Lafayette Ron Hubbard in 1954 a seal of approval it probably did not expect. The court justified its decision by invoking an ...
Jul 29, 1997
French court cuts sentence of a Scientology church leader — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
LYONS, France — A French appeals court reduced the sentence Monday for a Church of Scientology leader convicted of involuntary homicide in the suicide of a member. The case centered on the March 1988 suicide of Patrice Vic, 31, who jumped out a window. Prosecutors said Vic was under pressure from the church to take a $5,000 "purification treatment," including daily saunas and a diet low in sugar and high in vitamins. The lower court said in November that Jean-Jacques Mazier ...
Mar 8, 1997
Bomb defused at Church of Scientology in France — Orlando Sentinel
Type: Press
Source: Orlando Sentinel
NANTES, FRANCE — A member of the Church of Scientology found and defused a powerful bomb Friday in a church in the western town of Angers, police said. Police said the device, concealed in a sports bag, was found in the entry hall shortly after the Scientology church opened for the day. The church member who found the bomb carried it to a nearby park and defused it. An invesigator described the device as "made to kill and very powerful." There ...
Feb 18, 1997
Albright plays down dispute over Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Feb 6, 1997
Germany versus Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Feb 1, 1997
Victims or VILLAINS? — The Weekend Australian
Jan 27, 1997
U.S. criticizes Germany on Scientology — Washington Post
More: highbeam.com
Dec 22, 1996
Scientology and Germany: Falling back into the past — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 28, 1996
The Big Story: The S-Files — ITV
More: transcript, partial transcript
Type: TV
Author(s): Dermot Murnaghan
Source: ITV
Title "The S Files" [S as in Scientology Logo] [Presenter Dermot Murnaghan (DM henceforth) no relation to any other DM] Tonight we're going to expose serious financial crime in one of the Scientology cult's most successful operations in Britain. We show how they cooked the books, made false statements to obtain bank loans, and changed invoices to fiddle their VAT. [Extract from "Trust" ad] This advert for the Church of Scientology was recently shown on cable TV. It was a major ...
Nov 23, 1996
French Scientologist sentenced after church member's suicide — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Craig R. Whitney
Source: New York Times
The founder and former head of the Church of Scientology in Lyons was convicted of fraud and involuntary homicide today in the death of a church member who committed suicide after going heavily into debt to pay the sect for counseling sessions. A French tribunal sentenced the defendant, Jean-Jacques Mazier, to serve 18 months in prison, with an additional 18 months suspended, and fined him $100,000. The eight-day trial, in the first week of October, also examined charges of fraud, attempted ...
Oct 21, 1996
Letter to the editor — Courier Mail (Australia)
Oct 14, 1996
Persecuted in France — Courier Mail (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Lyn Smith
Source: Courier Mail (Australia)
I refer to the article "Ex-Scientologists testify to suffering" (C-M, Oct 4). Scientologists and non-Scientologists alike have come out in defence of the religious persecution in France. First, the French Government blows up the Rainbow Warrior, then despite world condemnation, they expose the Pacific to atomic fallout. Now we have them deciding that a new religion has become too popular and a threat to their hypocrisy. Scientology may be new and controversial but no one can deny it is the fastest-growing ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Oct 7, 1996
Charges against Church trumped up — Herald Sun (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Mary Anderson
Source: Herald Sun (Australia)
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Oct 2, 1996
Scientology is fighting for its future in France — International Herald Tribune
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Barry James
Source: International Herald Tribune
PARIS: The Church of Scientology is battling charges in a Lyon courtroom that it is a manipulative and fraudulent cult that practices false medicine and hounded one of its followers to his death. The case could derail the sect's campaign to be accepted as a mainstream faith in several European countries. Last week, it began beaming satellite television advertisements to Britain, its biggest recruiting ground in Europe, despite not being recognized there as a bona fide religion. The advertisements stress a ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 20, 1996
Europe scrutinizes sects: Faith, or false facades? — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Marlise Simons
Source: New York Times
PARIS, June 19 — Gilbert Bourdin wears a winged crown, calls himself Lord Manarah the Cosmic Messiah, and lives with his followers in the Holy City of Mandar'om on a mountaintop in Provence in southern France. From time to time, loudspeakers blare "ommm" over the compound, a place studded with temples and colossal statues of Buddha, Jesus and Mr. Bourdin himself. The "ommm" may now stop. The sect leader, 73, has sent out faxes announcing that he plans to renounce his ...
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