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Scientology Trial in France: Can a Religion Be Banned?
In a long-awaited trial that opened this week, French prosecutors are charging Scientology's French affiliate with organized fraud.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1901373,00.html#ixzz1lHMq5TKg
Update: according to Polish newspaper "Gazeta Wyborcza" yesterday (Feb. 02) Appellation Court in Paris declared Scientology's French affiliate an organized criminal organization and sentenced its leader, Alain Rosenberg, to 2 years suspended suspended prison sentence and 30.000 euros fine. 3 other leaders were also sentenced to suspended prison sentences and fines.
French Scientology's "Celebrity Center" and main publisher were also fined 600.000 euros.
http://wyborcza.pl/1,75248,11081321,Francja_kaze_scjentologow.html
In a long-awaited trial that opened this week, French prosecutors are charging Scientology's French affiliate with organized fraud.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1901373,00.html#ixzz1lHMq5TKg
Update: according to Polish newspaper "Gazeta Wyborcza" yesterday (Feb. 02) Appellation Court in Paris declared Scientology's French affiliate an organized criminal organization and sentenced its leader, Alain Rosenberg, to 2 years suspended suspended prison sentence and 30.000 euros fine. 3 other leaders were also sentenced to suspended prison sentences and fines.
French Scientology's "Celebrity Center" and main publisher were also fined 600.000 euros.
http://wyborcza.pl/1,75248,11081321,Francja_kaze_scjentologow.html
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