EuroCult Report <german_scn_news@hotmail.com>
BZ-Berlin
He is regarded as one of Scientology's most fearsome opponents -- Thomas
Gandow, sect commissioner of the Berlin Evangelical Church, gave his
sermon to the Luisen congregation yesterday under police protection.
Having been followed and photographed on his way to church, Gandow was
concerned that the church service would be interrupted.
As Gandow and former Scientologist Gerald Armstrong were on their way to
the Luisen Church [photograph of Gandow and Armstrong in church], they
were followed and photographed by a person unknown to them. Gandow told
BZ-Berlin this was meant to intimidate them. While under pursuit, he
notified the police, who pulled over the following vehicle at the
Michendorf roadside stop to ask for personal identification. According to
Gandow, it was Mirko O., an active member of the Scientology Organization
(SO). At that point the Luisen congregation was to receive police
protection for church services. [photograph of the backs of
leather-jacketed police in church.]
Several members of Scientology were among the congregation. Rev. Gandow
recognized one of them as a leading member; it was a woman writing down
statements made by the clergyman and sect victim Gerald Armstrong.
[photograph from behind of woman taking not es.]
A similar service had been disrupted two years earlier by Scientology
adherents. According to official statements from the Berlin state office
for the Protection of the Constitution, the Berlin branch of the
organization has about 200 members. Scientology is currently under
surveillance by the feds because it presents"indices for efforts against
the basic liberal system" upon which German democracy is based.
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Police protection for church service in Berlin
21 Jan 2003
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