9 Rosenberg's testimony I

Day 4 (June 2): Alain Rosenberg, "managing director" of Scientology’s Paris Celebrity Centre, presented a vigorous defence – to th...

15 Former lieutenants denounce Miscavige

Hats off to the St Petersburg Times: by getting two of David Miscavige’s key former lieutenants to go public on the violence and abuse at th...

Paris trial: what the prosecution wants

Just a brief update on the trial because I won't get to it in my coverage for a good while yet...Coverage will resume shortly. The prose...

8 Purification Rundown: defendants

Day 4 (June 2): The court trying six Scientologists and two Scientology associations heard from one of the defendants responsible for managi...

7 The Purification Rundown

Day 4 (June 2): an expert witness dismissed Scientology’s Purification Rundown as quackery as the Paris trial considered the high doses of v...

6 Pierre Auffret's Story

Day 3 (May 27): a Paris court heard how a company director's massive spending on Scientology put his business at risk. The court had bee...

5 The Psychiatrist's Testimony

(Day 3: May 27) Scientology’s techniques abuse the transference process familiar to all therapists, a psychiatrist told the Paris trial of t...

4 The Second Plaintiff

Day 3 (May 27): the second plaintiff in the Paris trial of Scientology told the court how her employer put her under ever-increasing pressur...

3 The Defendant Michaux

On the third day of the Paris trial of Scientology, the judge told a former plaintiff’s story – and questioned another of the defendants, on...