Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:02:36 -0500
Hammer man attacks ARD team while filming
Clearwater, USA
Mainz (dpa) A team from ARD magazine "Report Mainz"
says that it was attacked by a man with a hammer in
Clearwater (U.S. state of Florida) in front of artist Gottfried
Helnwein's house. As reported by "Suedwest" (SWR)
Broadcasting in Mainz, camera man Mark Bunker was hit
twice and his camera was damaged. He, himself was not
wounded. The "Report" team was trying to do some research
into the artist's Scientology background before the new set of
hearings in the Helnwein proceedings.
Journalist Peter Reichelt had managed to find out the secret
location where Helnwein had been staying in the vicinity of
Scientology Central in Clearwater.
Renowned painter Helnwein had been described in 1994 by
two associations critical of Scientology as a Scientologist.
Among other things, they accused him of being a "clergyman"
of a group "which uses coercive hypnotic procedures with the
help of a lie detector to destroy people's psyches to control
them."
In response Helnwein sued for a desist order, but was
soundly defeated in the second hearings in front of the
Frankfurt Superior State Court. The Federal Constitutional
Court overturned that judgment at the end of 1998 and
referred the matter back to Frankfurt, where a new hearing is
set for February 17.
The TV show about Helnwein and Scientology will be
broadcast by ARD on Monday (February 7, 9 p.m.)
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