Madrid Trial Update
http://www.elmundo.es/2001/09/15/sociedad/1047714.html
BableFish translation:
The public prosecutor solicits to dissolve to the Church of the
Cienciología to the being a " disguise " MADRID.
- The public prosecutor asked for yesterday in a judgment in the
Hearing of Madrid the dissolution of the Church of the Cienciología
and pains of five years to three months for 13 defendant by illicit
association, omission of having to prevent crimes, simulation of
crime, denounces false, illegal halting and intrusismo.
In the session, the public prosecutor modified his provisional
conclusions and retired the accusation for another defendant.
According to the public prosecutor, the origins in Spain of this
Church go back to 1968.
It adds that his founder, Ronald Hubbart, wanted to create a
"therapeutic method" for "destroying and even erasing
diseases [...] arriving at the treatment of the cancer", but
has become a "disguise" of the real idea of the organization:
"an obsessive one and disordered profit eagerness", for which
it resorts to the "economic drain".
Sources of the Church of the Cienciología indicated to Efe that the
dissolution " would be illegal because the Church does not
comprise of this cause ".
http://www.elmundo.es/2001/09/22/sociedad/1050589.html
BableFish translation:
Sight for sentence the judgment against the Cienciología RAFAEL J.
ALVAREZ MADRID.
- Seven months of process, 17 training years, thousand of folios
written, accused hundreds of people investigated and 12 cienciólogos...
Finally yesterday, the Provincial Hearing of Madrid left to sight for
sentence a judgment that has seated in the bench for the first time
in the History from Spain to " a sect with a desmedido eagerness
of profit " (according to the public prosecutor) or to "a
Church of good faith" (according to the apparatus of public relations
of the organization).
Nobody knows very well when there will be sentence, but judge Pilar
Oliván recommended yesterday calm the defense counsels who ate
" turrón".
At noon, after the room gave imputed the opportunity to speak
during minutes, all were ed ***reflx mng and hugs occurred. The three
magistrates, the public prosecutor, the lawyers and the defendant took
leave between lightenings and jokes, although the uncertainty will
hurgará a few months on the inside to them.
The judge must decide now if the 12 members of Cienciología are guilty
of illicit association, a crime for which the public prosecutor requests
three months of prison by head. In the other side, the lawyers are
convinced of the innocence of defended his and they even request a so
forceful acquittal "that not even it is possible to be appealed".
http://www.elmundo.es/2001/09/23/sociedad/1051034.html
BableFish Translation:
Courts / The Process Has extended 17 Cienciología Years: seven months of
pressures, doubts and bench the cause was reduced to 14 defendant of an
only crime of illicit association RAFAEL JOSE ALVAREZ MADRID.
- That morning of February, a twenty of journalists looked for between
the small group of defendant Herbert Jentzsch, the highest link of the
international Church of the Cienciología. Carlos Thief of Cegama, an
interminable and puntilloso public prosecutor, accused to him next to
other 14 followers of a shipment of crimes that went of the illicit
association to damages against the public health.
But the American millionaire never appeared. [NOTE: Heber Jentzsch,
Scientology's notorious "International President" who fled
to the United States and is currently on the run from Department of
Justice process servers.]
To the doors of the Provincial Hearing of Madrid somebody slipped between
the informers and whispered: " the great head is scared to enter
Spain, is not that they do not let to him leave ".
The past Friday, judge Pilar Oliván pronounced three magical words: "
Seen for sentence ". It was the end of seven months of judgment, the
fight of a public prosecutor against tens of defense counsels, 14
defendant (12 members of the organization, an ex- member and a police)
and a public so shut up as cienciólogo. The judicial procedure had begun
17 years before, the opening of Thief of Cegama in its race against
which a sect with a " desmedido eagerness of profit " considers.
In 1988, 71 people were stopped (10 jailed). Nine years later, the public
prosecutor accused to 21 men and women in a writing of almost 80 pages:
he related to some members of Cienciología to the disease of Franc or
the murder of White Carrero. And so spectacular connections served the
cienciólogos to try to discredit to him.
Next to those capital accusations, Thief of Cegama related hundreds
of presumed crimes with full name. The past 6 of February, 17 people
were mentioned in opinion in Madrid, three of which they were acquitted
during the Vista.
The views showed how Cienciología works outwards, so a well lubricated
machinery that it distributed press notes in which reflected the fiscal
accusations of the day and their corresponding answer before the session
finished. In the afternoons, they sounded to calls to periodic floods of
amiable words and questions of more. " It hears, by the way, and
tomorrow, by where it is going to go your information ".
From May, the cause became thin and an only common crime remained in 14
defendant and, the one of illicit association, for which the public
prosecutor requests three months of jail by person. Then the pressure
descended from and towards means and the subject it became a dripping of
witnesses, in particular, 67. The last month has left site to the final
considerations of all the parts.
The public prosecutor maintains his collective accusation by illicit
association and requests "the dissolution" of Cienciología
"in anyone of his forms or those that could adopt in the
successive thing".
The defense counsels maintain that " the defendant belong to
diverse associations, with greater or smaller entailment with Church
of the Cienciología, but always with a relation of spiritual nature,
of advising in this order ".
Friday, the 14 defendant had opportunity to speak, with pleas for all
the tastes and a common factor: "We trusted Justice". Enrique
To said that following the passages of the Physics "the only exit
is the religion".
Alfonso M. asserted that he was about to in the bench "not to
commit some crime, but being feligrés of a church", besides to
assure that Cienciología "is in the vanguard of the drug
rehabilitation".
Maria N. affirmed that she put in Cienciología because she creates
"in a world without criminals nor dementia, where all have
right".
To pound Oliván listened all, closed the folder, it left the case seen
for sentence and it left leaving between people a few smiles and nor a
single track.
30 Sep 2001
[Note: The
Scientology®
organization has at best estimate approximately
45,000 to 50,000 followers world wide -- contrary to the 8 million figure
that the organization has been claiming for the past few years or so.
While that number continues to drop (thanks in part to the Internet) few
of the remaining followers are even aware of the unending series of police
raids, indictments, and prison terms their leaders and fellow cultists are
subjected to routinely. Few are allowed to know about their organization's
criminal history, or its current racketeering activities. Even fewer of
the cult's remaining followers are privy to their messiah's written
policies which dictates the criminal behavior that keeps getting their
organization raided (see Xenu.NET for
suitable references of Scientology policy) Scientology management
is the problem, not the thousands of honest believers who are good,
honest citizens; themselves victims of Scientology - flr]
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