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Nov 2, 2009
Will France ban Scientology? — The Daily Beast
Type: Press
Author(s):
Eric Pape Source:
The Daily Beast Five years after Tom Cruise called Nicolas Sarkozy a “wonderful guy,” a French court convicted his church of fraud. Eric Pape on Scientology’s latest crisis. Scientology isn’t a religion, it’s a dangerous sect overseen by convicted criminals—at least as far as France is concerned. There is no doubt that the last week has brought a flurry of bad news for Scientology. There was the vocal defection of respected film director Paul Haggis, as well as fresh indications that John Travolta, one ...
Oct 27, 2009
Church of Scientology convicted of fraud in France — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s):
Nicolas Vaux-Montagny Source:
Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A Paris court convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more than euro600,000 ($900,000) on Tuesday, but stopped short of banning the group's activities. The group's French branch said it would appeal the verdict. The court convicted the Church of Scientology's French office, its library and six of its leaders of organized fraud. Investigators said the group pressured members into paying large sums of money for questionable financial gain and used "commercial harassment" against recruits. ...
Oct 27, 2009
Infinite Complacency: The Court's Ruling
Oct 27, 2009
Scientologists convicted of organised fraud in France — Agence France Presse (AFP)
Sep 14, 2009
New French law blocks Scientology dissolution — Reuters
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thierry Leveque ,
Nicolas Bertin Source:
Reuters PARIS (Reuters) - A new French law means the Church of Scientology cannot be dissolved in France even if it is convicted of fraud, it has emerged during a trial of the organisation. A prosecutor has recommended that a Paris court dissolve the church's French branch, which has been charged with fraud after complaints by former members who say they gave huge sums to the church for spiritual classes and "purification packs."
The Church of Scientology's French arm denies fraud.
Whatever ...
Aug 29, 2009
Scientology: crisis in France — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Angelique Chrisafis Source:
The Guardian (UK) It claims to be one of the world's fastest-growing new religions but a battery of legal cases threaten its very existence in this secular country In a small Normandy village, surrounded by wheat fields, Gwen Le Berre keeps a Scientology "electrometer" machine in his bedroom. He opens the large green briefcase and peers at the machine inside. It looks like a lie-detector from an old TV cop show and Le Berre doesn't really understand how it works — he just knows ...
Jun 4, 2009
Infinite Complacency - The Paris Trial: The Second Plaintiff
Type: Book
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen Day 3 (May 27): the second plaintiff in the Paris trial of Scientology told the court how her employer put her under ever-increasing pressure to take the movement’s courses. [...]
May 26, 2009
Scientology on trial in Paris for 'ruin' of disciples — Daily Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Henry Samuel Source:
Daily Telegraph (UK) The Church of Scientology has been accused of manipulating followers into handing over their savings, in a trial that could see the church banned from France. The church's main centre in France, the ASES-Celebrity Centre, its bookshop and six of its leaders were charged on Monday with organised fraud and illegally prescribing drugs. One former church member claimed she had been psychologically pressured into paying thousands of pounds for lessons, books, drugs and a device called an "electrometre", which the church ...
May 25, 2009
Scientology on trial in France — BBC News
Type: TV
Source:
BBC News The Church of Scientology has gone on trial in the French capital, Paris, accused of organised fraud. The case centres on a complaint by a woman who says she was pressured into paying large sums of money after being offered a free personality test. The church, which is fighting the charges, denies that any mental manipulation took place. France regards Scientology as a sect, not a religion, and the organisation could be banned if it loses the case. It is the ...
Jun 23, 2008
Scientology's Holy War — Maisonneuve
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bruce Livesey Source:
Maisonneuve Bruce Livesey investigates how former inner-sanctum member Gerry Armstrong became the Salman Rushdie of Scientology. The first time I met Gerry Armstrong, I thought he was paranoid. I’d driven down from Vancouver, summer 2007, into the verdant Fraser Valley to Chilliwack, BC, a somnolent, wind-blown town surrounded by jagged mountain ranges. A place as far removed from Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Scientology’s loopiness as one can possibly get. Armstrong and his third wife Caroline live in a walk-up, one-bedroom apartment ...
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David Miscavige •
Dead agenting (Black PR, smear campaign) •
Fair game •
Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation •
Gerald "Gerry" Armstrong •
L. Ron Hubbard's credentials •
Lawrence H. "Larry" Brennan •
Maisonneuve •
Omar V. Garrison •
Project Celebrity •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Sea Organization (Sea Org, SO) •
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Stephen A. Kent •
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Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)
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