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Published on Tuesday 26th February 2008
City authorities in Munich, southern Germany, have closed down a kindergarten with immediate effect after discovering it was run by the Church of Scientology, the municipality said overnight.
“The wellbeing of the children in the establishment was under threat because the education process was based on the principles of Scientology,” the municipality said.
Source: The Herald Sun
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Published on Tuesday 26th February 2008
“A few weeks after the center opened we received a letter from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution,” Eva-Maria Volland from Munich’s Education Department told SPIEGEL ONLINE. All members of the Kinderhäusl’s board were Scientologists, according to the letter, and the children were being raised according to the cult’s ideology.
Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution was set up after World War II to pursue any group which the government deemed a specific threat to its democratic system. Neo-Nazis as well as radical Muslim groups have been watched and shut down by the office.
A regional court in Germany recently ruled that Scientologists had enough “ambitions against the free, democratic basic order” for the agency to go on watching them.
Source: Der Spiegel
