World IN BRIEF : FRANCE : Police Crack Down on Suspected Cultists
From Times Wire Reports
Fearing that a full moon and the spring equinox might prompt another mass suicide, French police cracked down on suspected members of a doomsday cult. About 200 officers joined in the three-day sweep, questioning 50 people, detaining six and searching homes and offices, police sources said. The raids were ordered by a judge investigating the Order of the Solar Temple, a doomsday cult based in Switzerland. Sixty-nine Solar Temple members died in two mass murder-suicides, the latest in December.
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