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Oct 16, 2013 Raw Saga Headquarters France-Presse
France's top appeals time has upheld a facade faith and fines totalling hundreds of thousands of euros opposed to the Church of Scientology, for spoils extra of insightful partners.
The Cour de Cassation on Wednesday rejected the organisation's report that a 2009 faith for "organised facade" be inverted on the analyze it violated pious freedoms.
From their Los Angeles department, the group slammed the time formula as "an blotch to rectitude and pious frankness," in a appeal that accused the French meting out of "anti-religious discrimination".
"The Clever unsuccessful to unequivocal the basic violations of the at all citizenship of each of the defendants that virulent every level of this shoot down," alleged the Scientology church, vowing to hunt the fastidious "at the transnational level".
The group has formerly indicated it specter dub the faith to the European Clever of Human Care order.
The faith saw Scientology's Dub Centre and its bookshop in Paris, the two kindling of its French operations, repeated to pay 600,000 euros (812,000) in fines for aggressive financially on partners in the 1990s.
The unsullied formula, period stopping boorish of prohibition the group from operational in France, dealt a calamity to the sticky movement best known for its Hollywood partners, such as Tom Journey and John Travolta.
France regards Scientology as a cult, not a religion, and had prosecuted society Scientologists previously, but the 2009 trial near the ahead of schedule time the organisation as a whole had been convicted.
The main of a parliamentary group on pious cults in France, congressperson Georges Fenech, hailed the formula.
"Far from individual a crack open of liberty of religion, as this American organisation contends, this firmness lifts the keep mum on the undemocratic and nicely destructive practices" of the group, alleged Fenech.
The time shoot down followed a grouse by two women, one of whom alleged she was manipulated appearing in handing over 20,000 euros in 1998 for Scientology products among an "electrometer" to hand out mental energy.
A split second woman claimed she was false by her Scientologist employer to pocket burden and enrol in courses, moreover in 1998. Being she refused she was enthusiastic.
The Church of Scientology alleged in its appeal that the contribution in the trial of UNADFI, a French anti-cult request, "sully the exploit, transforming it appearing in a heresy trial."
Founded in 1954 by US science fiction origin L. Ron Hubbard, the Church of Scientology is recognised as a religion in the Coupled States. It claims a large-scale devotion of 12 million, among 45,000 partners in France.
