Scientology: Sardinia (Italy): extortion and suicide
L'Unione Sarda, Feb. 13 2003
http://www.unionesarda.it/unione/2003/13-02-03/CAGLIARI/CAG03/A03.html
The case of 1987
A seemingly unexplicable suicide: when Roberto jumped out of his
bedroom window, at the 5th floor of via Castiglione, he wasn't 20 yet.
It was Feb. 18th, 1997. Four months later his parents filed a
complaint: their son committed suicide - they claim - because he was
exasperated by the continuous requests of money of his cousin, with
whom Roberto shared the passion for Scientology.
Yesterday morning, Gup (preliminary hearing judge) Giovanni Lavena
indicted Giorgio Carta, 30 from Cagliari, with the charge of
extortion. According to the deputy prosecutor Guido Pani, the
defendant (represented by lawyers Luigi Concas and Guido Manca Bitti)
demanded [Roberto] almost 100 millions, threatening [him] to reveal
the confidences Roberto made during the meetings with Scientology
members. As for the other two indicted, Annamaria Cogoni, 44 from
Selargius and Massimiliano Longu, 30 from Cagliari (represented by
lawyer Pasquale Ramazzotti), the judge ordered the files to be
transferred to the prosecutor in order to have the charges specified.
Cogoni and Longu (both members of Scientology) are charged with
abetting: they'd helped Carta to evade the investigation, making
disappear Roberto's 8 "uditing", i.e. the Scientology
files of the young boy who committed suicide.
This last circumstance surfaced in a second time, from there the need
to reformulate the charges. Now the trial splits into two stumps:
infact Carta will be tried May 2nd next by the judges of the Court
first section, while the other two, if indicted, will be tried by the
monocratic court and the two proceedings could not be joined again.
According to Roberto's parents (who sued for damages in the criminal
prosecution, with lawyers Mario Canessa and Mariano Delogu) everything
started with the boy's Scientology enrolling, of which he was happy at
first. Then something happened. Roberto confided his father and mother
to be pressed by his cousin Giorgio Carta (he too a follower of the
"Mission of the Church of Scientology") with demands of money.
By the way: two days ago a magazine related to Scientology and speaking
of this investigation in a cryptic way was handed out for free in front
of the Palace of Justice. After Roberto's death, some of his friends
confirmed that the boy had been threatened: for any reason he had not
to talk of the money handed to his cousin.
After gathering a sheer dossier, Roberto's family asked the power of
attorney to reopen the investigation about their son's death. The
charge of suicide instigation dropped, while remains the one for
extortion.
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Following the previous media reports of Roberto's story
(
http://xenu.com-it.net/txt/cagliari2.htm
), the local CoS
representative wrote "L'Unione Sarda" and "La
Nuova Sardegna" two long letters (
http://xenu.com-it.net/txt/cagliari2.htm#p3
and
http://xenu.com-it.net/txt/cagliari2.htm#p5
) claiming that Scn in a
religion and not speculators, that the local org is unrelated to the
proceedings and connecting the two means religious intolerance and
discrimination.
Moreover, in late 2002 a web site containing "disturbing
news" about Roberto's family, their lawyers, judge and
prosecutor appeared on the web
http://web.tiscali.it/esti_ora/index.html
. As you can imagine,
the proceedings are the usual conspiracy against the poor
"cult" of Scientology and of course, Martini (the
undersigned) and "Allarme Scientology" (my web site
http://xenu.com-it.net
) are part of the
conspiracy, as already stated by the reliable source "Tell
it All Org" (
http://www.tellitall.org/Leprove/scenes.html
).
Martini
According to the prosecutor, the suspect asked the boy 100 milions
(51,650.00 euros)
Note:
[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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