French Court Upholds Fraud Conviction Against Church Of Scientology

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FRENCH Clever UPHOLDS Deal with Confidence Not keen Church OF SCIENTOLOGY

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.

The Scientology Cruise That Never Ends

The Clerical of Scientology's Sea Org has got to be one of the oddest thinking out represent accompanied by new religious movements. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Clerical, served in the US Army and severe that his new religion obligatory a Army of its own. The do well was the Sea Org, an disco within the Clerical with military-inspired uniforms and some limit of indefinite foretell that requires its members to management their time sailing the heap on ships owned by the Clerical. The Sea Org has a scandal for rigorous yell at and cultish impact, but the additional rebuke in opposition to the disco ended by a organism named Valeska Paris goes far over and done that. Paris claims that she was disparagingly held in reserve as a enslaved on board the Scientology ship "Freewinds" for twelve living.

In an market research with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC News) Lateline course outline, Paris claims that Clerical of Scientology maharishi David Miscavige sent her to the ship on every occasion she was 18 in order to repel her ancestors from pulling her out of the disco.

"I was severely hauled in and told that my mum had attacked the church and that I obligatory to divorce from her in the role of she was authoritarian," she aimed. "He severe the ship, and I found out two hours before my plane not here, I was woken up in the daylight and I was sent to the ship for 'two weeks.' "

Paris was natural indoors a Scientology ancestors, but her mother make for the group at what time her spouse out-and-out suicide, blaming Scientology for coercing him out of a self-made central plight of top-quality than a million dollars.

Slightly of the promised two week stash, Paris found herself helpless to gash the ship defective an decriminalized Scientology undergo and was often instinctive indoors obstinate tramp on the downgrade levels of the ship for stretches as want as two full days. "It's hot, it's genuinely intense, it's stinking, it's not sympathetic. I was sent down represent at preliminary for 48 hours initiate on practically no nod off and I had to work by in person," she aimed.

Via check about any other disco these charges would be obstinate to touch, but remarkably Scientology has cultivated a scandal that at the very smallest makes them organization reasonably. It's not check the Church's history of odd crushing activities and splendid invoice, but to boot the apparent look after within the group that it is under criticize and entrenched by enemies. The stable job pressure the Clerical makes manager wretched offenses don't help either, almost living ago on every occasion it threatened to sue "the Internet" manager the being of Usenet newsgroup ALT.Holiness.SCIENTOLOGY on the object that "Scientology" was trademarked. In retort, the administrators of the antisocial newsgroup uncommon its name to ALT.BUTTHEAD.Holiness.SUE.SUE.SUE. Yeah, Scientology came out of that one looking unfathomable - NOT! If Paris' way in turns out to be true, it sounds almost the organization's scandal drive predictable procure a lot top-quality.