Charles Bameko, a 52-year-old Congolese pastor of the la Bonne semence transmise (Good seed transmitted) church in the French city of Créteil, was given a suspended three-year prison sentence for swindling over two million euros. Between 2019 and 2022, he…[Continue Reading...]
President Emmanuel Macron’s government has proposed legislation to fight “cultish deviation”. This includes the introduction of a new offence of exercising “psychological control” — which comes with a maximum sentence of three years in prison. The Interministerial Mission for the…[Continue Reading...]
The region of France from which a British boy escaped this week is infamous for 'alternative' lifestyle communities, conspiracy theorists and cults - including one which was led by a convicted paedophile. Alex Batty, from Oldham, Lancashire, went missing in 2017 when he…[Continue Reading...]
He had gone on a family holiday to Spain and is believed to have been abducted by his 43-year-old mother to live an "alternative" lifestyle abroad. The teenager was found near the French city of Toulouse on Wednesday and taken…[Continue Reading...]
KIDNAPPED Alex Batty escaped from this rundown holiday home before walking for four days over hills to his freedom. He was taken there by his mum and grandad two years ago after they left a travelling hippy commune said to…[Continue Reading...]
PARIS (AP) — A 71-year-old Romanian yoga guru and 14 others were handed preliminary charges by a Paris magistrate on a raft of counts linked to an international ring that for years allegedly subjected followers seeking enlightenment to sexual exploitation.…[Continue Reading...]
Gregorian Bivolaru, a 71-year-old national of both Romania and Sweden, and 14 other people were to be questioned with a view to being potentially charged in the case, a judicial source told AFP late on Thursday. French authorities on Tuesday…[Continue Reading...]
Gregorian Bivolaru, 71, and 40 of his followers were captured in a morning raid by the French police. It reportedly took 175 officers to carry out the arrest on different branches of the crazy cult. The sect named the Movement…[Continue Reading...]
French police detained Romanian fugitive Gregorian Bivolaru in Paris, along with 40 other individuals, taking them in for questioning on charges of indoctrinating the female followers of his organization, the Atman Yoga Federation, to sexually exploit them. Bivolaru, 71, was…[Continue Reading...]
Four men are going on trial in Paris accused of conspiring as a neo-Nazi terrorist group to plan attacks on mosques and Jewish targets in France in 2017 and 2018. An investigation was opened in 2018 after Alexandre Gilet, a…[Continue Reading...]
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