http://www.elpais.es/p/d/19990206/sociedad/ciencia.htm [ spanish orginial ]
translation of Spanish Criminal Indictement here
Scientology asked me [ arnie lerma ] about "spanish documents" in fax in Nov 1994
described in Washington Post article Dec 15th 1994
Feb 6 1999 el pais newpaper in Spain
The leaders of the Church of the
Cienciología will be judged in Madrid
by 12 crimes
The public prosecutor requests 30 years of jail for the
world-wide leader of the sect, Heber Jentzsch
Jose Antonio Hernandez, Madrid
The Church of the Cienciología will be put under in a
opinion for the first time in Spain. From the 1 of June and
to September, the Hearing of Madrid will judge by 12
crimes to 18 leaders and followers of the organization,
among them its world-wide leader, the North American
Heber Jentzsch. This one faces a fiscal request of 30 years
of prison by diverse crimes. The Cienciología was dissolved
in Greece and defendant of " practices of espionage " in
Germany. Their handlings in Spain were in the open in
1988, after a spectacular police cast that ended 37 lengthy
ones.
The Church of the
Cienciología settled down in
Spain in 1968 to expand the
doctrine of its founder,
Ronald Hubbard, and with
the purpose of catching
people with problems to put
under them a vortex of
expensive short courses (up
to 50) with the promise to
purify its spirits and to heal
its evils. They were
therapies that caused serious
mental upheavals to the
people catched in the
networks of the organization,
according to the public
prosecutor.
The 18 encausados, in their majority leaders of Dianética
Spain and of the centers of Narconón chemical
decontamination, will have to respond before the Room Fourth
of the Provincial Hearing of a total of 12 crimes: illicit
association, against the freedom and security in the work,
against the public health, defraudación to Property, threats,
professional intrusismo, usurpation of functions, illegal
halting, injuries, denounces false, you compel and crime
simulation.
Between the processings they are the president of Dianética,
Arturo Reguera; its ex- presidents Enrique Ayuso, Antonia
Navarro and Montserrat Eyrie, and the leaders of this
organization Carmen Mu6noz, Victory of Blas and Enrique
Coll, in addition to other leaders of Narconón.
The public prosecutor compares to the Cienciología " with a
sect " that disguises itself " of church " with the double
objective to elude to the state treasury and to use to the others
" to make and to make money ". " Its lack of scruples is of such
degree that many of their illicit activities even appear
regulated " in a luck of ethical code that contains humiliating
punishments for the violators.
In order to catch followers, the tentáculos of the Cienciología
were used the denominated test of personality. That is to say,
a test to feligreses potentials took place , and the common era
to find some psychic or physical problem to them. That
problem, often fictitious, had a solution that always consisted
of the submission of the patient to a very expensive therapy.
They even assured that they were able to cure the cancer.
Between the techniques of spiritual and corporal regeneration
employees, the fiscal one mentions the brain washing, that the
organization carried out to the undisciplined members. That
luck of catharsis consisted, always according to the public
prosecutor, in locking up to them during days in a room
without eating nor sleeping, and under intimidations and
harassing interrogations.
Angel P.I. was one of the victim, describes the public
prosecutor. To this man, the desprogramadores detected a
susceptible psychological problem to him of cures if it were
put under one of the courses. With the 110,000 pesetas that
paid they made him take substances that took to him to be
hospitalized with diabetic comma. Also the public prosecutor
in his writing attacks of accusation the methods used by the
Cienciología in his centers of attention drug addicts. In
addition to being detrimental for the health, he maintains the
public prosecutor, " those techniques lacked all scientific
rigor ".
All the properties
It also counts the case of Ana G. R., that fell under the
networks of the Cienciología victim of a strong depression
after separating of its husband. The woman invested all her
savings in the courses and, as they did not let request money to
him, she had to sell his jewels, their floor and the premises,
that is to say, all his properties.
Once expressed, the organization sent it to Denmark, where
she put under the call short course of ethical forts. The
woman protested by her situation and was necessary " to shut
up it ". In Denmark they forced it to make " exhausting
domestic tasks " nonfree of shouts and threats. The woman,
assures the public prosecutor, finished " vomiting blood ". The
organization soon transferred it to Barcelona and ended up
expelling it when it did not have left nor céntimo. The public
prosecutor speaks of the " economic drains " that the victims
were put under.
Ana C. B. was boarded by a member of the Cienciología in a
street of Barcelona (also forts were used press campaigns to
catch faithfuls). She proposed to him to be put under a
gratuitous test of personality that would allow him to surpass
its studies with greater success. The girl, describes the public
prosecutor, began " to break contact gradually with her family
and friendships " and fell " in a deep depression " of which
she took in curing two years, after her family managed to take
it of the Cienciología.
Another one of the accusations that the public prosecutor makes
on the Cienciología refers to the false titleholders in psychology
and psychiatry that were in charge to take care of in the centers
the followers. That is to say, one put to drug addicts into the
hands of people " without title nor psychic knowledge or
psychiatric some ".
The result was that many of the faithfuls entered the
organization with slight depressions and ended authentic panels
of schizophrenia. To thus it happened him to Carmen G. R., who
destroyed his personality and lost his desire to live after
following the courses of the organization. Something similar
happened to him to Enrique B. M., who, put under the
aggressive therapies of the organization, " almost completely
lost his capacity to reason and left his university studies, arriving
at a devoid state of emotions ". " a dangerous organization ", according to the public prosecutor
J. A. H., Madrid
English:
In some passages of its extensive writing of accusation, the
Office of the public prosecutor of Madrid defines to the
Cienciología like " an extremely dangerous organization " who is
looked more " like a sect " that to a religion. A danger showed,
according to the public prosecutor, in the investigations that the
Cienciología in search of dirty rags developed to try to discredit
journalists, to the ex- deputy To pound Salarrullana and even to
the own judge of Madrid that developed the investigation, the
today magistrate of the Provincial Hearing of Madrid Jose Maria
Vázquez Honrubia.
So it was the pressure on the judge, who this one chose to stay
out of the investigation, although before ordered a cast that
ended 37 lengthy ones. The operation was baptized as
Operation Dew and took place the 20 of November of 1988. A
total of 71 national and international leaders of the Cienciología
was reunited that day in a hotel of Madrid.
After arduous investigation that had begun a year before, judge
dictated that day 37 orders of halting and ordered registry of 19
seats (Narconón and Dianética) which at that time it had in
Madrid Cienciología, and of others distributed by Valencia,
Barcelona, Bilbao, Alicante, Seville and Jerez. Many were in
freedom after lending declaration, but others, among them the
maximum head, Heber Jentzsch, were jailed. Jentzsch, that
resides in the United States, is the main one accused in the
judgment that prepares the section fourth, that presides over To
pound Oliván.
Ronald Hubber, founder of the Cienciología, advocated a
focused doctrine to purify the person releasing to him of the
injurious agents who despersonalizan to him. He drew a world in
which, by means of a species of short courses and
performances on the human mind, the person could free itself of
physical drugs and purge her evils.
For it it had to be put under a chain of short courses and a
ferocious discipline, contained in which Hubber denominated the
ethics codes. More than to regulate the coexistence, that
normative one was an authentic Penal Code, honors the public
ministry. It included severe punishments for the díscolos
followers, from the unavoidable transfers and the confinement
accompanied by " rigorous works ", to clear threats to reveal the
sexual conduct and experiences of the people, followers or no,
considered harmful for the organization.
In fact, it maintains the public prosecutor, behind Cienciología it
sublies a assembly guided by a " obsessive one and disordered
eagerness of profit and enrichment ".
" you do not wish to leave because it do not give account you of
which you are inside "
PABLO ORDAZ, Madrid
" you are beginning an adventure. That you never return to be
the same one ". Thus, with an enigmatic appointment of L.
Ronald Hubbard, the founding father, the Church of the
Cienciología announces in Internet. What for thousands of
Spaniards it constitutes the only form to reach the sky, is for
others - an indetermine number of ex- followers, many of them
with serious psychological sequels a " authentic hell, which you
do not wish to leave because it do not give account you of which
you are inside ".
One of them, happy one that finally the judgment against its old
spiritual heads has been indicated, related its terrible experience
yesterday. " I was caught, swindled and manipulated mentally.
The consequences were very hard; the aim: to remain with my
money ". " they always seduce to You of the same form ", adds
while it requests that its identity stays privily, " they excite your
curiosity, your desires to improve the personality, create
fictitious problems to you and soon they offer solutions to you,
also fictitious; the only thing that is real is the money that is
removing to pay your spiritual tranquillity to you ".
The hallucinating story of the ex- follower as soon as it hides the bitterness by the
six lost years: " they make think that thousands of years back called dictator Xenu
seated to all the humanity You on a volcano and later it exploded an atomic pump.
The cores of all of them adhered to ours like leeches, and only through the
Cienciología you can be released of the last experiences. After seeing of that
there are drawee, you feel fantastic and you think: it did thousands of years that it
did not feel to me so well ".
In spite of testimonies ahead thus, Mark Eeraerts, representative of the
Cienciología in Spain, put a reality unquestionable: " We are an absolutely legal
church ". It has papers, fiscal license and until a page in Internet.