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Le Figaro - France : La dissolution n'assure pas la disparition d'une association

Quick translation:

Dissolution does not guarantee the disappearance of an association

by Mathieu Delahousse, with Bruno Dusaussoy

June 17, 2009 | Updated: 20:52 (Paris time)

A request has been made for the dissolution of the Church of Scientology, on trial for fraud. Groups punished by dissolution usually try to rise from their ashes, but the legal arsenal is evolving.


To disappear and yet survive: as any group threatened with dissolution would have done, the Church of Scientology had planned a counter-measure. Article 21 of the Statutes of the Spiritual Association of the Church of Scientology - one of the two entities on trial by the Paris Correctional Tribunal - specifies that if it were to be dissolved, the assets of the association would return to its parent entity ... To prevent this subterfuge, the prosecution therefore requested - in addition to the dissolution of the legal entity - the confiscation of the stock of the bookstore and the electrometers.

If the dissolution requests are approved by the tribunal, the sentence will be more than symbolic. Only the real estate owned by the two associations would remain intact because they rent their premises to civil companies which belong only indirectly to Scientology. "This is the general problem associated with the dissolution of legal entities convicted of fraud," said the chief prosecutor of Lyon, Jean-Olivier Viout, who prosecuted Scientology in 1997. "Dissolved companies can be reborn from their ashes and try to reconstitute themselves."

The 1936 law concerning leagues

The only decisive action is the liquidation of assets, which necessarily follows a court-ordered dissolution. Groups of persons can be revived in spite of the law. The radical right-wing group Unité radicale, one of whose members was Maxime Brunerie, author of the assassination attempt against Jacques Chirac on July 14, 2002, was dissolved by decree. However, it was reconstituted in the form of Jeunesses identitaires.

Same story for the tiny racist and anti-Semitic group Tribu Ka and for the violent supporters of the Parc des princes who re-assembled as the "Boulogne Boys". "They scattered into two other clearly identified clubs," a magistrate explained, "but it is still difficult to take legal action against them for reconstitution of a dissolved league, which is a crime." Under the law, "combat groups and private militias" are subject to the law on leagues adopted in January 1936 by the Blum government. Hooligan clubs are specifically covered by the July 2006 law on the prevention of violence at sports events.

Adopted too recently to be applied in the trial currently underway in Paris, the About-Picard law, passed in 2001, applies specifically to sects and permits their dissolution, once convictions for abuse of weakness are declared final. In theory, such movements can try to revive themselves through other associations.

But this strategy may be a thing of the past. One provision of the law may indeed strike each Scientology entity one by one. This article states that a court may pronounce the dissolution of all entities similar to the convicted entity "if they pursue the same objective and are united by a community of interests".

AnonLover

some more good coverage in english

Scientology Trial Ends in Paris; Verdict Expected in September - CBS 19 - The Eye of East Texas News - 

Scientology on trial in France

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AnonLover

dbl post, cocks

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N. Ron Rubber

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Does David Miscavige, a dwarf leading a destructive cult, killed Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard by shooting Vistaril in his butt? Or maybe XENU did it...

«J'ai fait un rêve très précis une nuit après avoir mangé des cretons pas frais. Ça implique l'Église de Scientologie et une sordide histoire de chèvres. Je ne peux pas en dire plus...» - François Parenteau

TypingChimp

How do you say, "I no longer think you're a bunch of cowardly surrender-monkeys" in French?

I find myself basking in the glory of Scientology's Eternal October. It is beautiful seeing the ruin David Miscavige has pulled in. All of that pain, all of that suffering, all of those needless deaths, all finally coming home to roost. Call it karma. Call it justice. Call it "what goes around comes around." Call it whatever you want. I call it beautiful.

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LurkingObesity

I'm still gonna wait on the verdict before I change any opinions I have of France. It's a long time off, and frankly I'm feeling a bit cynical. They might cave and acquit the bastards. At which point the "cowardly surrender monkey" label might be looking kinda nice again.

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Ann O'Nymous

And what about the "stupid" label ?

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Funniest thing I've seen from you yet.

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Educate the public more!! Leave cards/leaflets anywhere you go.The public is the future Jurors

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moarxenu

Correct term is "cheese-eating surrender monkeys."

Cheese-eating surrender monkeys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

moarxenu

cocks dbl post

Ann O'Nymous

Correct term is"stupid and ignorant"

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llama de drama

brb, really quitting chanology forever again

Anonymous

EPIC FUCKING WIN.

Oinkertron9000

awesome!

exOT8Michael

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL > 9000

Stay on target.
And enjoy the lulz, caek and wins.

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JMBrandon

argh, you beat me to it...

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DeathHamster

Or one that needs to find a washroom really quickly.

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DeathHamster

Dup post. (It 404ed me.)

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