Blog: 15 The Apostate, Gonnet I - 2009-08-08

15 The Apostate, Gonnet I August 8, 2009, Jonny Jacobsen, Infinite Complacency

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Day six, June 8: Scientology's personality test is fixed to exaggerate people's weaknesses and Scientologists themselves are trained to lie to the court, former member Roger Gonnet told the Paris trial.

Politician Jean-Pierre Brard's testimony against Scientology, however damning, had been that of an outsider. Roger Gonnet, the next witness for the plaintiffs, spoke as a former insider.

Gonnet became an active member of Scientology in 1975, setting up the Lyon branch of Scientology's operations and running it until he was declared a Suppressive Person, an enemy of the movement, in 1983. Since then he has been one its leading critics, writing a book about his experiences and setting up a network of websites on the subject. 1