OUTCRY INVESTIGATIONCharges against The Church of Scientology[La Nuova Sardegna 26 March 1999]From: martini@xenu.com-it.net (Martini) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: ITALY: Scientology raided in Sardinia Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:25:54 GMT Message-ID: <36fbcf49.56791@nntp.lightlink.com> More troubles for Scn in Italy. The police are investigating a suicide case committed by a 20 yrs old boy. Article published by "La Nuova Sardegna", Friday March 26th, 1999 Sorry for the quick and literal translation :( Martini Allarme Scientology http://xenu.com-it.net For those not so good in geography: Sardinia is the big island between Italy and Spain ========= OUTCRY INVESTIGATION Charges against The Church of Scientology Digos [a special branch of the Italian police] are investigating after the complaint of the relatives of a 20 yrs old boy who committed suicide. CAGLIARI. Being 'clear', clean. Being able to control emotions, getting free from the mental trash resulting by the daily life. The goal is easy for the secular priests of the church of Scientology: you just need to read the books of 'Dianetics' founder, Ron Hubbard. Then you have to proceed to a purification path carefully designed. There are millions of young and not so young people, worldwide, who joined the church and are happy with what they got. Despite its success, however, Scientology is leaving behind a trail of crime and civil cases , polemics and a number of suicides. The latest one concerns a Cagliari 20 years old boy, Roberto D., who put an end to his existance jumping from the 8th floor. He got in touch with Scientology hoping that the Hubbard's church could help him with his problems. It was March 1997. Now a police investigation started again on what seemed to be a silent tragedy bounded to be placed on files: Digos are investigating and raided the organization city offices - located in Sonnino rd. - and private apartments. Mario Canessa, attorney, delivered to the public prosecutor Guido Pani documents and important testimonies on behalf the boy's family. There are some hypothesis of crime, as well, on which the detectives are working: circumvention of an incapable and extortion. They are heavy charges that would put the activities of Hubbard's followers under a completely different light. But no more is known by now, and attorney Canessa is very surprise for the spreading of the news, this morning. Public Attorney offices all over Italy have been opening and closing files on Scientology for years, and for years there have been complaints about the psychological subjection to which young people are forced to finance the church of 'Dianetics' with every means, ruining their own lives. Detractors claim that Scientology built up an enormous worldwide empire exploiting the weakeness of its interlocutors. Men and women looking for steady points, ready to do everything just to win the barrier of their own fears. Up to now, however, no courts have been able to prove the existence of a link between the proselitizing activities of Scientology and the charges about the consequences of those activities. And it was impossible to prove the links with the suicides that are committed all over the world on an almost regular basis. In Sardinia we can remember the case of a girl of Nuoro who killed herself at the end of the 80s. Adherents of Scientology (that is defined as "an association to preach, practice and spread the religion based on the books of Dianetics written by Ron Hubbard") have to pay to attend courses and join the church. According to Ansa [news agency] the starting donation is 90.000 liras [47 euros], plus the "adviced" purchase of 3 books. Increasing requests for money would follow. Sardinia (Italy): extortion and suicideupdateL'Unione Sarda - 13 February 2003From: Martini <martini@xenu.com-it.net> Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Sardinia (Italy): extortion and suicide Message-ID: <5k0p4vkudheogoakbbr10bmgs4jnc2g8ta@4ax.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 05:59:29 GMT L'Unione Sarda, Feb. 13 2003 http://www.unionesarda.it/unione/2003/13-02-03/CAGLIARI/CAG03/A03.html The case of 1997 According to the prosecutor, the suspect asked the boy 100 milions (51,650.00 euros) A seemingly unexplicable suicide: when Roberto jumped out of his bedroom window, at the 5th floor of via Castiglione, he wasn't 20 yet. It was Feb. 18th, 1997. Four months later his parents filed a complaint: their son committed suicide - they claim - because he was exasperated by the continuous requests of money of his cousin, with whom Roberto shared the passion for Scientology. Yesterday morning, Gup (preliminary hearing judge) Giovanni Lavena indicted Giorgio Carta, 30 from Cagliari, with the charge of extortion. According to the deputy prosecutor Guido Pani, the defendant (represented by lawyers Luigi Concas and Guido Manca Bitti) demanded [Roberto] almost 100 millions, threatening [him] to reveal the confidences Roberto made during the meetings with Scientology members. As for the other two indicted, Annamaria Cogoni, 44 from Selargius and Massimiliano Longu, 30 from Cagliari (represented by lawyer Pasquale Ramazzotti), the judge ordered the files to be transferred to the prosecutor in order to have the charges specified. Cogoni and Longu (both members of Scientology) are charged with abetting: they'd helped Carta to evade the investigation, making disappear Roberto's 8 "uditing", i.e. the Scientology files of the young boy who committed suicide. This last circumstance surfaced in a second time, from there the need to reformulate the charges. Now the trial splits into two stumps: infact Carta will be tried May 2nd next by the judges of the Court first section, while the other two, if indicted, will be tried by the monocratic court and the two proceedings could not be joined again. According to Roberto's parents (who sued for damages in the criminal prosecution, with lawyers Mario Canessa and Mariano Delogu) everything started with the boy's Scientology enrolling, of which he was happy at first. Then something happened. Roberto confided his father and mother to be pressed by his cousin Giorgio Carta (he too a follower of the "Mission of the Church of Scientology") with demands of money. By the way: two days ago a magazine related to Scientology and speaking of this investigation in a cryptic way was handed out for free in front of the Palace of Justice. After Roberto's death, some of his friends confirmed that the boy had been threatened: for any reason he had not to talk of the money handed to his cousin. After gathering a sheer dossier, Roberto's family asked the power of attorney to reopen the investigation about their son's death. The charge of suicide instigation dropped, while remains the one for extortion. ================== Note: Following the previous media reports of Roberto's story (http://xenu.com-it.net/txt/cagliari2.htm ), the local CoS representative wrote "L'Unione Sarda" and "La Nuova Sardegna" two long letters (http://xenu.com-it.net/txt/cagliari2.htm#p3 and http://xenu.com-it.net/txt/cagliari2.htm#p5) claiming that Scn in a religion and not speculators, that the local org is unrelated to the proceedings and connecting the two means religious intolerance and discrimination. Moreover, in late 2002 a web site containing "disturbing news" about Roberto's family, their lawyers, judge and prosecutor appeared on the web http://web.tiscali.it/esti_ora/index.html . As you can imagine, the proceedings are the usual conspiracy against the poor "cult" of Scientology and of course, Martini (the undersigned) and "Allarme Scientology" (my web site http://xenu.com-it.net) are part of the conspiracy, as already stated by the reliable source "Tell it All Org" (http://www.tellitall.org/Leprove/scenes.html ). Martini The case of the boy who committed suicide: |
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