Wuerzburg, Germany July 21, 2000 Volksblatt Wuerzburg Wuerzburg (Bull) The informational booth of the "Commission for Violations of Psychiatry against Human Rights, Inc." (KVPM [the German CCHR]) will be "specially monitored" tomorrow, Saturday, by the city. That was communicated by city hall spokesman Ole Kruse yesterday. As reported on Tuesday, the Catholic Church had issued a warning about the Scientology aligned organization. This is the third time in several weeks the Commission had set up a stand on the upper market . According to the applicable legal situation and administrative practice, an informational stand can be refused only if it is known or expected that crimes will be committed or codes violations will occur, according to Kruse. There is no indication for either of those with KVPM. Yesterday, the KVPM's national management disputed that signers of the so-called "protection letter" to refuse psychiatric treatment would be running financial risks. His organization's help was always free, said KVPM President Bernd Trepping of Munich. But he said that anybody could find out that most of the Commission's activists were Scientologists and that the booklets were financed by Scientologists, so he was not disputing that. Reverend Alfred Singer, sect commissioner of the Wuerzburg Diocese, had advised against filling out the statement of intention which was formatted like a patient admittance form. Those who signed the "protection letter" with power of attorney would not only have to count on enormous expenses but also on having "private matters of health" exploited by Scientology. The Bavarian State Interior Ministry has also been involved with the KVPM. It said in its 1997 booklet "Scientology - an anti-Constitutional Endeavor," that while the KVPM "vociferously opposed alleged abuse in psychiatry," it avoided mention of "systematic mistreatment" of Scientologists by the Scientology Organization in its "Rehabilitation Forces."

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