? In July 1996, a Greek court closed the Scientology Organization in Athens (KEFE) after receiving 4,200 complaints and after examining documents found during a search of the Athens branch of the Church of Scientology. According to Greek newspapers, some of the uncovered documents testified to the infiltration of the Greek Intelligence Agency by Scientology agents in 1993 [1].

? The Athens Court of First Instance, in a decision of October 7, 1996, dissolved the organization called the Center for Applied Philosophy of Greece and recognized that the organization called the Center for Applied Philosophy of Greece, which preaches the views of the founder of Scientology, Hubbard, "is a hidden financial and trading firm that provides services in the market through spiritual and therapeutic means, through communication, seminars, purification procedures, and speculative actions." It has manners and customs alien to nature and the concept of man as a free personality, which do not meet the interests of the Greek people. The court found that "the core and purpose of this organization, which professes Hubbard's views, is power and money, of which Hubbard said: 'Your ability to control a person makes you obligated to control many, and no one can become a professional Scientologist if he cannot control another person,' 'only the strong will survive, only the steadfast can conquer the world.' His slogan is "Make money." The above-mentioned decision of the Athens Court established that "what is moral and just in Scientology is that which contributes to the dissemination of its theory, and that which does not contradict it. Any reaction or resistance is encountered as a potential source of problems that requires a special approach. In any negative manifestation towards Scientology, a policy of "killing" the agent is set in motion in the sense of undermining one's reputation and neutralizing attacks in order to weaken resistance. Those who leave this organization are disturbed by persistent phone calls aimed at bringing back the departed, and on the other hand, they are considered enemies and traitors. The theory professed by this organization and the practice it follows eliminate any notion of human freedom, freedom of expression and the constitutionally established freedom to cooperate. The organization brings the candidate closer, mainly young people with an impressionable psyche, in order to join them without resistance, and people who have expressed bewilderment and questions about the activities of the organization are expelled as undesirable. A candidate for an organization fills out the so-called Oxford test (personal test), which contains 200 questions and, as a rule, states a problem in the candidate's communication. This is necessary for his further contact with the organization and attending lessons and seminars for a bribe in order to "improve his personality and relationships." For each program and for everything related to his education, he is obliged to pay an appropriate amount, and a fairly high one. Before filling out the aforementioned Oxford test, the leaders of the organization, seeing that some people are literally "at the limit of logic" and, therefore, there is a danger of suicide, persuade them to sign a statement so that the employees of the organization are relieved of responsibility for the life of the candidate. Then members sign contracts for the provision of work without salary or insurance compensation for up to 5 years. At the final stage, members go to Los Angeles (USA), where the World Church of Scientology is located, and sign a treaty for a period of one billion years to improve their situation." "The main methods that are used in the first stages are "auditing" and the "purification" procedure. Auditing is a psychotherapeutic technique using the procedures of the intellect." The Athens court recognized the inadmissibility of interference in the human psyche, the use of personality testing and "auditing" methods. Another method was also recognized as illegal - the "purification" procedure, before which the participant signs an agreement on the release of the organization from liability and his awareness of the danger that exists for him in connection with the use of this method. "Both of these methods of organization are illegal and arbitrary, and the lawlessness consists in the failure to take preventive and protective measures. These methods contain an element of danger to the health of the people involved in them. Participation in this organization means for its member a renunciation of his own personality, of behavior towards the family, which can be interrupted altogether because of the latter's negative attitude towards Scientology, abandonment of studies and complete devotion to the organization." The court's decision explicitly states that "it is an organization with totalitarian structures and tendencies that essentially despises the human being, acts freely for appearances, to attract members who then experience all the procedures and theories mentioned, brainwashing in order to create a controlled way of thinking and reduce resistance (the main tenets of the theories of the founder of Scientology) so that people become weak-willed beings, have lost the ability to make decisions, have become a product of their free will, having passed through a propaganda filter and appropriate processing." The court's decision also states that "the Scientology organization cannot refer to the violation of rights and religious freedom," since its activities are associated with the infringement of the rights of other people, "moral health, public order, which this organization primarily offends by its activities. The actions it commits are medical, social and moral harmful and dangerous." Noting that the organization had filed a petition for recognition of its name "Scientology," the court indicated in the decision that this organization carries out economic activities in Greece for its own interests, either under the guise of a philosophical organization, and recently in a religious role. It is not an independent organization, but is subject to a strict hierarchical structure, under the control and supervision of foreign organizations and centers, which is contrary to the social system [15].

? Judge Kostandia Angelaki wrote in her decision of December 20, 1996 (the verdict was officially issued a little later) that "this organization has medical, social and ethical activities that are dangerous and harmful... Adepts are subjected to... mind-control treatment by an imposed way of thinking that limits the ability to counteract." The case was initiated after numerous complaints from relatives of adherents of the Church of Scientology, which operated in Greece as the Center for Applied Philosophy. They accused the center of transforming their relatives into "robots with an unbalanced or suicidal state" [10].

? On January 17, 1997, a Greek court banned all of Hubbard's Scientology organizations throughout the Hellenic Republic [15].

Denmark

? In 1984, Jakob Andersen, a well-known reporter, winner of international journalistic awards, who devoted a series of his materials to stories about the dubious activities of Scientologists in Denmark, won a court case brought against him by this sect. The sectarians, who accused the publicist of slandering the "Church of Scientology", were obliged to pay the defendant 500 thousand crowns, not counting the legal costs, also covered from their treasury. And here's the curious thing: Scientologists, desperate to gain sympathy from Danish justice, decided to appear before the public of this country as innocent victims, accusing Jacob Andersen of being a "CIA and Interpol agent." Hubbard himself called on his followers to act with such methods: "Don't defend yourself! Attack yourself! Make a fuss!" [29].

On July 10-15, 1995, the International Seminar "The Explosion of Occult Totalitarianism in the Modern World" was held in Aarhus, the participants of which in their final statements sharply condemned the activities of the "Church of Scientology", especially in the part concerning the persecution of journalists who criticize this organization [1,17].

? In 1996, the religious status of the "Church of Scientology" and its tax exemption were abolished in this country [15].

? On the evening of September 28, 1996, in one of the districts of Copenhagen, in a villa on Boltonvai Street, a follower of the "Church of Scientology" committed a brutal murder. Two one-and-a-half-year-old babies were killed by a governess, in whose care they were left by their parents, who were at work that Saturday evening. Three hours later, the criminal herself came to the police, delivering the murdered twins in a stroller. Bottles of milk were placed in the hands of the dead children, but their bodies were mercilessly mutilated. In accordance with Danish investigative practice, the name of the governess taken into custody was not given, but some details became known. The 47-year-old woman is allegedly a native of Russia, but left more than 25 years ago for Italy and has an Italian passport. Four years ago, leaving her husband with three children, she moved to Denmark. During the interrogation, the woman carried herself with great composure, gave detailed testimony about the most sinister details of the crime, but did not answer the question about his motives. The children were drowned by the criminal in the bathtub, and then punctured and disfigured with scissors. As the police found out, in Copenhagen, the arrested woman, who arrived here on the so-called "missionary visa", actively visited the branch of the "Church of Scientology". In 1987, the Danish authorities refused to register the Church of Scientology as a denominational association. Everything related to this aspect in the biography of the governess now attracts special attention of investigators, especially since the adherents of the "Church of Scientology" are also the parents of the murdered children, who, according to eyewitnesses, were in a state of shock after the tragic news was given to them [1,7].

Italy