Hotel stops Scientology Exhibition
Berlin, Germany
Steglitz - Once again the Scientology Organization (SO)
in Berlin is embroiled in controversy: the corporation which
presents itself as a religion had originally intended to open
an exhibition in a hotel today, but their name was crossed
off the list due to public pressure.
"We rented Scientology spaces for a meeting assuming a
closed conference. Yet the organization distributed about
500,000 leaflets in 13 districts giving directions to the
exhibition in our hotel. We perceived that our good
reputation was in danger and terminated agreement," said
Klaus-Volker Stolle, manager of the hotel in question in
Steglitz. Also, the Press and Information Office of the
federal administration had indicated in a letter to the hotel
that Parliament's travel agency would cancel bookings for
2000 and 2001 if the business relations of the hotel with
Scientology were not clarified. Because of that, the
controversial psycho-group is now demanding 200,000
marks from the Office - for damages. Besides that,
representatives of various political parties had got wind of
the plans and protested. "We need neither the
Scientologists nor their activities in our city," said Cerstin
Richter-Kotowski, vice chief of the CDU faction in the
House of Representatives. The controversial, commercially
oriented group has already been under surveillance by
Constitutional Security; the Berlin sect report says, "The
SO's image of society stands in unmistakable tension to our
basic, liberal, democratic system." Now Scientology will
be opening its show today at 1 p.m. in private spaces at 30
Dueppel Street in Steglitz.
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