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Scientology: crisis in France

Title: Scientology: crisis in France
Date: Saturday, 29 August 2009
Publisher: The Guardian (UK)
Author: Angelique Chrisafis
Main source: guardian.co.uk

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It claims to be one of the world's fastest-growing new religions but a battery of legal cases threaten its very existence in this secular country In a small Normandy village, surrounded by wheat fields, Gwen Le Berre keeps a Scientology "electrometer" machine in his bedroom. He opens the large green briefcase and peers at the machine inside. It looks like a lie-detector from an old TV cop show and Le Berre doesn't really understand how it works — he just knows ... [Read the rest at guardian.co.uk]