scientology condemned in France

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Newspaper "Le Monde" is reporting that the French branch of the COS has been condemned to a fine of Euro 600'000 for "organised fraud". Its main leader has received a 2 years suspended sentence and a € 30'000 fine. Lesser employees have received suspended sentences and fines.

C'est la première fois que la justice française écrit dans un arrêt que les activités scientologues sont en elles-mêmes une entreprise d'escroquerie. Jusqu'ici, seules des personnes physiques, responsables de la Scientologie, avaient été condamnées en France dans d'autres affaires.

(It is the first time that a French tribunal qualifies scientology's activities themselves as an organised fraud. Until now, only individuals, leaders of scientology, had been condemned in France for various criminal activities.)
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OnlyTellsTruths said:
Nice work France. It's always good to see a government use logic.
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Multivac said:
Definitely.



It's almost unheard of for any government to use logic rather than their usual "thought" processes. This should help Sarkozy if he decides to stand for re-election.
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I'm afraid that if not for a few prosecutors and judges persevering despite of a lot of obstacles, from diseappearing documents to governmental apathy, co$-france would have got off the hook.

As for Sarko, he's an admirer of Tom Cruise and has not helped much in the fight against $ciento, so I doubt very much he'll want to mention it in his bid for reelection.
 
Go prosecutors and judges then. It's good to see someone in authority stand up to the scammers at COS.
 
Flo said:
As for Sarko, he's an admirer of Tom Cruise and has not helped much in the fight against $ciento, so I doubt very much he'll want to mention it in his bid for reelection.
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To my everlasting shame, I used to like Tom Cruise as an actor, but when I see him now I remember him on TV saying that if there was an accident you shopuld call a scientologist rather than paramedics as only scientologists could help.
 
Multivac said:
To my everlasting shame, I used to like Tom Cruise as an actor, but when I see him now I remember him on TV saying that if there was an accident you shopuld call a scientologist rather than paramedics as only scientologists could help.
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I've been lucky in my life in that, by the time I was a teenager, I had met enough show business people to figure that being a good actor, musician, painter, didn't make you an intelligent, or good, human being.

Not that I ever found Cruise a good actor, though ...
 
Complexity said:
I wish that this would happen in the U.S.
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Outside of the alleged stupidity/woo loving of the American public, what in your opinion would make such an outcome impossible ? I've some ideas, but I'm far from certain to be right (one is that judges and prosecutors aren't elected in France, another is that there's very limited possibilities to play on officials' private peccadilloes - I expect in a very few years Strauss-Kahn will be elected to some office without anyone mentionning hotel maids and anyone trying to play that angle to be reviled in public opinion, for example).
 
Now all they have to do is repeat the same actions against Islamic and Christian groups.
 
It has happened to various religious groups, not just $ciento, when convinced of committing various frauds and/or crimes.

Just preaching silly beliefs isn't ground for being prosecuted by law. $ciento hasn't been prosecuted for its ideas (despite what its leaders would like people to believe) but for using coercion and blackmail in order to retain adepts and suck money from them, something that most mainstream religous groups don't do (at least in France).
 
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