From: "roger gonnet" <gonnet@antisectes.net>
Subject: AFP: Two more scientologists indicted in France (fraud and illegal medicine/pharmacy)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 15:07:31 +0200
Message-ID: <3ebba81f$0$23446$626a54ce@news.free.fr>
Organization: Guest of ProXad - France

Two execs from the cult indicted in France

PARIS, 7 mai (AFP) - Two execs from the scientology church have been recently indicted by a parisian instruction judge , one for fraud and the other for illegal pharmacy practice, did we learn wednesday.

Alain Rosenberg has been indicted as Genreal manager of the "Celebrity Center" scientology in Paris, for fraud and complicity of illegal exercice of pharmacy".

The judge suspects him to have been engaged in personality testings without a scientific basis having caused damages to her plaintiff.

Those tests could have been used in order to steal fortunes of some people, under the guise of a psychological aid.

Another executive, Aline Fabre, is indicted for illegal pharmacy practice because she would have sold high dosages vitamins.

Those indictments come after an instruction coming from a complaint, penal and civil, against the scientology association (moral identity), opened in december 1998.

Attorney Aram Kevorkian, questioned by AFP, who is the defender of the two persons indicted, declared that indictment is not culpability, and that the people are not guilty.

Nothing forbids personality testings, and those tests had scientific bases, did he declare, before adding that vitamins can be sold outside drugstores.

Me Kevorkian added that he had appealed of these indictments before the Indictments appeal Room in Paris court.

Judge Colette Bismuth Sauron, who indicted both scientologists, has other folders against the scientology church.

She was between others responsible to instruct about judicial pieces having disappeared from the Paris Court, and she has dismissed the complaint, as she tought that nobody could be indicted.

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Scientology testing OCA is fraud.

IQ testing from scientology is wrong and has never been tested itself against new populations.

My estimation is that it contains moreover two wrong answers.

OCA is totally false and is used only to get people in "finding their ruin"...

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Me Kevorkian's attorney's office employs at least a scientology atttorney called Jacquot, an OCA guy.

I have defended myself against Me Nathalie Garnier and Me Jacquot for "copyright violation" in Paris Court of Referes (urgency matters), october 2002.

I was sentenced to one euro.

The cult had complained twice against me for the same copyright violation (of a public document they have publicly on their own Ethique et Liberté Site).

roger

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From: janeebeslis@hotmail.com (Praxis)
Subject: French scientology officials indicted
Date: 9 May 2003 14:56:30 -0700
Message-ID: <3e471c14.0305091356.f8375dc@posting.google.com>

From http://www.expatica.com/france.asp?pad=278,313,&item_id=31100

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PARIS, May 7 (AFP) - A French investigating magistrate has indicted two officials of the US-based Church of Scientology on counts of fraud and "practising pharmacy illegally," court sources said Wednesday.

Alain Rosenberg, head of the Scientology Celebrity Center in Paris, was placed under investigation on counts of fraud and complicity in illegally practising pharmacy.

Aline Fabre is likewise under investigation for illegally practising pharmacy in that she was alleged to have sold high-dosage vitamins.

Rosenberg is also suspected of involvement in subjecting a plaintiff to personality tests without scientific base.

Investigators are exmaining whether the tests might have been used in attempts to obtain money from individuals on the pretence of psychological counselling.

The charges were laid as part of an inquiry into the French Scientology church launched in December 1998 after a civil suit had been filed.

Aram Kevorkian, the two scientologists' lawyer, told AFP that "placing someone under investigation doesn't mean that they are guilty, and the suspicions are unfounded."

"Nothing forbids anyone from carrying out personality tests and these tests had a scientific foundation... Vitamins can be sold elsewhere other than in pharmacies."

Magistrate Colette Bismuth Sauron, who indicted the two scientologists, is also in charge of several other Scientology-related cases.

Bismuth Sauron this week threw out one of the cases, in which crucial legal files went missing in 1998, saying that nobody was to blame.

Founded in the US in 1954 by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology was accorded the status of religion there in 1993, but is regarded with suspicion in many European countries, where opponents accuse it of manipulating adherents for financial ends.

In France, where it is classified as a cult, Scientology claims around 10,000 members.

ŠAFP

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