CAUTION: This is a Babelfish translation.... best I could do. ;-)
Tuesday September 21, 1999, 19h37
France/Procès - the hidden face of Scientologie
MARSEILLES, September 21 - the correctional court of Marseilles
approached Tuesday the bottom of the file of Scientologie and
lengthily heard the six prevented and the two civil parts present with
the audience.
The court had refused at the beginning of morning the formulated
applications of reference the day before, with the opening of the
lawsuit, by defense.
**time-out** the main thing prevent, Xavier Delamare, 42 year, have be
the first to himself advance towards the bar, to praise the merit of
Scientologie and deny that person in charge and follower of sect
himself be deliver with swindle which them be reproach.
**time-out** himself express as if it recite the principle state in
1950 by Ron Hubbard in its deliver-worship " The Dianétique ", it
himself be make an effort during more than de two hour to convince the
court that the single vocation of Church of Scientologie be of nature
spiritual.
But at once after him, " repented " Domenica Pons, 33 years, came to
gum the table idyllic drawn up by the " gourou " niçois.
**time-out** this teacher fall " accidentally " into the swirl
scientologue because it be it there have 10 year in search of a work,
have not chew its word to denounce the " handling " of which it have
be the witness and the victim, even if it be today on the bank of
prevent.
**time-out** with its continuation, the old journalist Marie-Angel
Molina, 42 year, over which weigh some heavy load, have reaffirm its
attachment with Church of Scientologie, even if it occupy more today
the function to " advise orientator " which it place with heart of
swindle suppose.
The young woman is well obliged to agree when the president
Marie-Marie-Annick Varlamoff and the prosecutor Danielle Drouy-Ayral
question it on some practise at the very least strange into force
within the sect. Thus personally admits it having boxed, on behalf of
the Church of Scientologie, of the astronomical sums, and to have even
accompanied by the followers in power to their banking agency so that
they request a loan there...
But these practices hardly move Molina Marie-Angel. For it, "
spiritual freedom is not a question of money. It deserves that one
devotes to it what one wants to devote to it ".
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A contract of a billion years
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" the scientologists are extremely honest people and the Church is a
place where one smells oneself well. Nothing made there without
self-determination people ", add it, while conceding that "il had
errors there ".
Emmanuelle Aulagnier, 32 years, girl of good family and partner of a
doctor scientologist, does not say other thing. As much, it came " by
chance " in Scientologie by discovering the writings from Ron Hubbard.
" I realize that what we did to certain people was monstrous ", admits
it however by referring to the sessions of formation and hearings who
led certain followers to the nervous breakdown, even at the
psychiatric hospital.
Isabelle Archer, 35 years, is it also member of the sect and asserts
high it and strong. **time-out** its role in the business have a
connotation particular, insofar as it occupy at the time of fact of
very high responsibility in the sect and have make make a
investigation on the magistrate in load of file which him be worth to
appear today.
According to the deposition of a follower in charge of this mission,
Isabelle Archer wanted " to make pressure " on the judges.
In the absence of Sylvie Musset, 36 years, reserve in the United
States " for medical reason ", Michele Horse, 45 years, is the last
warned to be heard by the court.
With Domenica Pons, it is only to have taken the its distances with
the Church of Scientologie. But she seems nothing to regret and is
convinced to have fulfilled carefully its mission of listener.
Among the " audited " members by Michele Cheval appears in particular
Raymond Scapillato, who constituted civil part. This former contractor
in 55 years electricity came to tell with the bar the family and
financial drama in which plunged its experiment scientologist.
A drama which also lived Jean-Jacques Greneron, 39 years, which had
joined the sect after having read in the press a small advertisement
letting to him expect an employment. Employment that it never had,
even if the persons in charge of Scientologie made him sign in 1989 a
contract... of a billion years! / TC/EJ
REUTERS
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