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| On the left is Palais de Justice in Paris, Conciergerie is part of it. |
This afternoon a group of Scientologists and myself went to demonstrate in front of the Justice Palace (Palais de Justice) to make a stand for our religion. See below for the official statement on that.
As a Scientologist since many years (20+), seeing what some newspapers and individuals say about our religion never ceases to amaze me, these people must be "visiting" a Church of Scientology with blinders on. It's either that or we Scientologists are just totally incapable of explaining what we're really doing.
But since we have a website, we have blogs, we have produced a gazillion videos letting people into the churches so they can see what's going on I just don't think that's the problem. But in the end, we can't sit here and blame the evil editors and others I guess we just need to realize that we've got to communicate more and make our efforts more real.
Because in terms of un-selfish help, I don't think there are many organizations that beat Scientology in that game.
Here's a really bad translation (Google plus a little bit of editing) of why we were demonstrating outside the Palais de Justice today. From a blog post by Eric Roux a Minister of the Church of Scientology in France.
Today, counsel for the Association of Spiritual Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre-opted by their conscience, to leave the trial in which they felt not being able to practice as paralegals.
The Association, in turn, wishes to inform that it has more than endorse a trial of its presence it considers that it is absolutely unfair, in which the most basic rights have been denied.
While the defense wished, as is the usual procedure, to examine parts of the record to determine if UNADFI could really qualifies as a civil trial, the most fundamental right has been denied arbitrarily, and Court denied that these pieces could be considered contradictory, thus protecting a party to the proceedings unduly against the legitimate demand of another, in violation of procedural rules that are available to all citizens.
This incident comes as the Church denounced the trial began interference of the Ministry of Justice in this matter, and a circular instructing magistrates to work "in partnership" with UNADFI, an association known for its commitment to fight against the Scientology religion. The Court had yet to be defended biased and subject to this circular.
Faced with what it sees as a justice unworthy of our country, the Association of Spiritual Church of Scientology-Celebrity Centre chose not to guarantee of a trial that his presence, blatantly, is a process whose ins and outs are distorted.
Scientology is a religion that exists in France for over fifty years, it has about 45,000 followers in the hexagon, 12 million worldwide and over 9,000 churches and missions groups across 5 continents. It is a religion whose rights are recognized as such by both the European Court of Human Rights, but also in all democratic European countries (Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, etc.)..
