I received the following newsflash through email.

This is a really shocking thing to consider, and very reminiscent of the Jonestown tragedy. I sincerely hope that justice is served.

Please sign the petition.


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In keeping with these purposes, today's NewsFlash updates you on the recent disclosure that alleged "mass suicides" in 1995 at the Solar Temple in France, an event which was subsequently used to justify anti-religious measures and actions in that country, was actually a creation of French and other government intelligence agencies. Following is a petition to the French Prime Minister from the Coordination of Associations and People for Freedom of Conscience in France. To sign the petition, go to
http://www.petitiononline.com/CAP04/petition.html.


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Dear Readers,

As you may be aware, there was recently a decision in the French Court in Grenoble France, to close the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the massacre of Solar Temple members in this country. New elements have been discovered by the attorney for several of the families of the victims of this massacre, which are quite disturbing and show that there was definite malfeasance uncovered in this horrific incident.

Amongst the most disturbing element is the statement from psychiatrist, Jean Marie Abgrall, who originally testified that this was a "mass suicide", but has now revealed that the Solar Temple matter (coined "OTS" for Order of the Temple Solaire), was a creation of the French intell agencies and outside intell agencies as well, who set up and ran this group for their own use. Millions of dollars were funneled through this group for the purposes of intelligence agencies. A number of news articles were published in France recently exposing this.

Among the other elements revealed is the expertise done by Professor Gilbert Lavoue, who is a Court-appointed specialist on fires. The judge allowed a request by several of the victim's family members, including Alain Vuarnet, son of the French ski champion to exhume the bodies of Mrs. Vuarnet and Patrick Vuarnet (Alain's mother and brother). This expert found a high degree of phosphorous in the bodies,
which could only be explained if an Army flamethrower was used to burn the bodies. Additionally the temperature used to burn the bodies was too high for a simple wood fire, and had to be an Army flamethrower.
Another disturbing element that was released is a note sent by the Renseignments Généraux (the French "RG" or Internal Police in France) to the Judge of Instruction on the OTS case, and which was sent to the other judges before the judgment had been made in an attempt to discredit the families of the victims and the expertise done on the exhumation of the bodies. This note was a straight attempt to influence the judge on his decision.

It may be remembered that what was officially passed off as a "collective suicide" has been exploited as a justification to an extremely vicious campaign whose effects were dramatic. This Solar Temple theory was the beginning in France of a hysteria created by those who set this up, to equate any religious movement to a "potential suicide" cult.

In France, the repercussions were horrendous:

- a black list of 172 ostracized religious and spiritual movements was published in a parliamentary report, generating discrimination for their members.

- a law of exception (the About-Picard law) was voted to make the dissolution of religious and spiritual groups very easy; a law which was highly criticized by leaders of traditional religions and the international human rights community.

We therefore request, by undersigning this Petition :

· That a full enquiry is ordered as requested by the families of the victims of the Solar Temple massacre, so that all elements are unearthed on the OTS tragedy.

· That the list of the 172 ostracized groups be cancelled, as this list has been used to justify all sorts of discrimination abuses.

· That the About-Picard law be cancelled, as a law of exception without any justification in a legal and democratic state like France. The law must be the same for all and a "tailor-made" law is unacceptable, based on subjective terms to ostracize and even dissolve groups just because their beliefs are not those of the majority.

· That the flow of public funds to private militant organizations (anti-"sect" groupst like CCMM or ADFI/UNADFI) who are fighting against freedom of conscience and spiritual groups, just because they disagree with them, come to an end.

Sincerely,
The Undersigned


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