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...finances of the cult, the Order of the Solar Temple. Police did not release other details, including the charges brought against them. One of those being held in the confines of a French slammer is Christian-Marie Le Gall, a doctor who shared a medical office with Luc Jouret, the sect's dead guru who was a practitioner of homeopathy. Swiss officials said that French police were acting in accordance with an international warrant issued after 48 burned bodies of cult members were found in Switzerland. Five others were found dead in Canada.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
Swiss, French and Canadian officials also probed the possibility that Jouret < and Di Mambro had been involved in gunrunning or money-laundering schemes. Jouret had publicly urged followers to stockpile weapons to prepare for the end of the world and last year pleaded guilty in Canada to illegal arms possession. Canadian officials confirmed they were pursuing specific information implicating Di Mambro in money laundering, but they expressed skepticism at a report that Solar Temple leaders had purchased guns and other military equipment in Australia and resold the materiel in the Third World...
While Australian federal police found no such link, they discovered Jouret and Di Mambro had repeatedly visited the country beginning in the mid-1980s. People who met Jouret say he was fascinated by Ayers Rock, the huge monolith sacred to the Aborigines that rises from the desert floor in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. He apparently told acquaintances that the rock's "mystic appeal" had drawn him to Australia and that he had applied to hold a religious service there. The Aborigines, who control access to Ayers Rock, turned him down...
Ending an international manhunt, Swiss officials investigating the deaths of 53 members of the Order of the Solar Temple identified the remains of the cult's leader, Luc Jouret, among the dead. Nevertheless, the motive behind what officials now believe was mass murder, followed by mass suicide, remains a mystery. They suspect that the Prophet of Doom may have indeed believed the end of the world was near...
Mystery surrounds the death of Jouret and his followers...