Scientology moving away
After only ten months, Scientology leaving
Zurich, Switzerland
by Hugo Stamm
The controversial Scientology psycho-sect began on Friday to
vacate its Information and Test Center on 41 Badener Street.
To be sure, the American organization will soon be opening a
new information center downtown. Where the stubborn street
missionaries will be hunting for customers in the future, though,
is still not known. Scientology spokesman Juerg Stettler does
not intend to betray where Scientology will be pitching its new
camp. The public will be informed soon enough and the
contract is already being wrapped up, he said.
Driving customers away
It is no surprise that the Scientologists will be leaving their
center on Stauffach after only ten months, because the rental
contract only ever went up to the end of April 2000. The
Hubbard adherents were sub-lessees of the Neuburg sports
shop, whose contract with Paradeplatz real estate has run out.
Their departure gives primarily the surrounding businesses and
residents reason to celebrate. "When the Scientologists stood
in front of our shop with their leaflets, some pedestrians would
go over to the other side of the street," said a sales lady from
an adjacent business. "In the beginning we had to shoo them
away, later we just had to give them the 'look'," reported an
employee from a different shop. "I called the police on them
once," chimed in her colleague. District Association President
Max Kuenzig also expressed his relief at the prospect. In a
recent session of the Stauffach Interest Association, shop
owners, as with one voice, expressed their dissatisfaction
about the daily recruitment operations of the Scientologists. "I
have gotten many complaints and the residents feel as though
they are being harassed," said Kuenzig. The recently broken
front window of the Scientology center is one more sign of the
tense relations on Stauffach. The saga will soon continue - in a
different quarter.
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