Le Soleil (www.cyberpresse.ca), March 21, 2010

The church of Scientology, another hard hit
by Marc Allard
Translated by "Anonymous"

(Québec)Forced abortions, violence, imprisonment, torture, sexual
abuses, embezzlement, blackmail: The church of scientology has been
accused of commiting all these crimes in the last months, as
denunciations from ex-scientologists multiplied in the world.

In Australia, senator Nick Xenophon requested, last november, a public
investigation about the Church of Scientology, after receiving
numerous letters from ex-employees and high ranking members of the
religious organisations, amongst them, Paul Schofield, who spoke with
''Le Soleil''

«De mon point de vue, c'est une organisation à deux visages», a dit
Nick Xenophon au Sénat australien. «Il y a le visage public d'une
organisation qui prétend offrir des conseils et du soutien à ses
fidèles et il y a le visage privé d'une organisation qui maltraite ses
membres et cible vicieusement ses critiques, et semble carburer à la
paranoïa.»

«From my point of view, it's an organisation with 2 faces», said Nick
Xenophon in the australian Senate. «There is the public face of an
organisation that pretends to offer to offer support and counsel to
it's members, and there is the private face of an organisation that
mistreat it's members, targets viciously it's critics and that seems
to be fueled by paranoia.»


Beating Staff Members

In the United States, the St. Petersburg Times revealed for the first
time in june, accounts from four ex high ranking members of the
organisation, that accuse the head of the Church, David Miscavige, of
beating frequently his employees.


At the start of the month, the New York Times was publishing an
investigation on the difficulty that scientologists encounter when
trying to distance themselves from the organisation. To quit the
Church of Scientology, the couple in the article affirmed having to
sign false confessions about their life and their work, to give the
Church thousands of dollars and having to cut any communication with
their friends and family that stayed in the Church.

In france, following complaints from 2 ex-members of scientology that
said they were defrauded of tens of thousands of euros, the
correctional Tribunal of Paris condemned in last october the Church of
scientology for ''Organized group fraud''.

In every country, the Church of Scientology accused the ex-members of
lying.