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From: RSchatte <RSchatte@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:45:17 EST
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:31:17 -0500
Subject: Re: French Cult Leader Bourdin Dies

From: AOL News <AOLNews@aol.com>
Subject: French Cult Leader Bourdin Dies
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:36:22 EST

French Cult Leader Bourdin Dies

.c The Associated Press

PARIS (AP) - Gilbert Bourdin, a cult leader and self-proclaimed
messiah who said he shielded the world from extraterrestrial
invasions, has died. He was 72.

Bourdin died overnight Wednesday in the castle he built in
Castellane, a town south of Grenoble. He had suffered for several
years from diabetes and Parkinson's disease.

From his Mandarom cult's mountain retreat in the southern Alps,
Bourdin at times referred to himself as the ``Cosmic Christ'' and
at others as ``Hamsah Manara,'' which means ``god among men'' in
Sanskrit.

A former teacher from the French Caribbean island of Martinique,
Bourdin founded the Mandarom cult in 1969. Followers are strict
vegetarians, wear loose-fitting tunics, shave their heads and
tend gardens at the Castellane castle.

A 1996 French parliamentary report said the cult had engaged in
``insidious recruitment'' practices and cited a police
investigation of rape accusations brought against Bourdin by five
former cult members. He was jailed for two weeks, but no formal
charges were brought.

Information on survivors and funeral arrangements was not
immediately available.

AP-NY-03-19-98 1533EST

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or otherwise distributed without  prior written authority of The
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