On 2 Oct 1999 05:50:57 GMT, in alt.religion.scientology you wrote:
Mark Bunker wrote:
Belgian police on Thursday seized what were described as "truck
loads" of documents during raids throughout Belgium of 25 offices
Hartley Patterson <hpttrsn@REMOVE.ME.vossnet.co.uk> wrote...
According to the CoS Web site there is just one Org (in Brussels), no
Missions.
"Piltdown Man" <piltdown@newsguy.com.NOSPAM>
That is correct. The Church of Scientology Brussels had been at the same
address in the Rue du Prince Royal in Brussels since its foundation. They
were in the process of moving to a new address in the Rue MacArthur (which
seemed rather downstat from the TV pictures). Both were raided. All the
other places raided were the offices of Scientology-related companies such
as U-Man, and private residences.
Hartley Patterson <hpttrsn@REMOVE.ME.vossnet.co.uk> wrote...
The church claims 8,000 members in Belgium.
"Piltdown Man" <piltdown@newsguy.com.NOSPAM>
Which would be 0.08% of the population.
How many full-time staff would be needed anyway if there really were 8000
active Scientologists in Belgium?
Hartley Patterson <hpttrsn@REMOVE.ME.vossnet.co.uk> wrote...
Well, that's another country onto my list. I'm still searching for the
'3 million members' the CoS claims to have in Europe.
"Piltdown Man" <piltdown@newsguy.com.NOSPAM>
Some time ago somebody who had been on staff in Brussels for a brief while
and had worked on their address list posted to ARS. From my vague
recollection, they had a few thousand addresses on file, but almost all
were people who'd never been seriously involved or no longer active. I
recall he made it out there were something over a hundred active members a
few years ago. I don't know who he was or how reliable he was, but he
seemed to know what he spoke about. Maybe someone can dig it up out of the
ARS archives.
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