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the New Age and instead wanted to be with the other children of her own age, doing the things they were doing. His son condemned him as a fraud, which led to many more of the Order’s followers demanding their money back.
    The police also became involved when, through Jouret’s association with illegal arms dealers, two members of the Quebec group were arrested for the possession of handguns with silencers. Jouret was also charged. The suicides at Waco and Jonestown did not help Di Mambro’s cause either as unorthodox groups were now regarded as dangerous and viewed in a very negative light.
    With the world seemingly bearing down on Di Mambro, the only explanation he could offer his confused followers was that the end of the world was nearing and that this negativity was intended to encourage them to seek out a better life, and to push them towards their salvation. They had to depart together. Consequently Di Mambro and Jouret began to expedite their plans to take their followers to Sirius.
     
    V ITAL  E VIDENCE
     
    In the aftermath and investigation into the Swiss and Canadian suicide fires, letters were offered to the police from relatives of those who had died, written in advance of the events, and as a means of explanation for what was to come. They told of how some ‘traitors’ would have to be executed, but that mostly they were going to carry out the killings as a way of helping the members of the group who were not strong enough to make the journey themselves. Those who were prepared to kill themselves were the more spiritually developed and superior. They believed that they would transcend to a higher spiritual level by taking their own lives and those of others, and would reach a state which they could not achieve on earth. Earth, they claimed, was heading for destruction anyway and soon no one would live there at all.
    These notes however, albeit written before the events, were mailed afterwards. Therefore some of the members of the Order of the Solar Temple were still alive.
    It was originally believed that Di Mambro and Jouret had planned these murders with no intention of taking their own lives, but instead lying low and then emerging when the dust had settled to spend the money their followers had donated to their cause. It was therefore surprising when their bodies were discovered amongst the dead in Switzerland. They died separately, Jouret first at Chiery, and Di Mambro afterwards at Granges-sur-Salvan. It appears that they had genuinely believed their own prophecies and predictions.
     
    D UTOIT  M URDERS
     
    The reasons for the first murder, that of the Dutoit couple and their son in Quebec, soon became known. Tony Dutoit used to help Di Mambro with one of his greatest ‘tricks’ – creating the illusion of conjuring up the elders of the Order to materialise before the assembled followers in their communal enlightenment rituals. This was all achieved with the use of lasers, and it was not long before Dutoit became disillusioned with this fraudulent practice and the false claims which Di Mambro was making. He disclosed the secret of this ‘phenomenon’ to other members of the group and then tried to claim back some of the money which he’d donated to the Order. Nicki Dutoit, Tony’s wife, also displeased Di Mambro by becoming pregnant. Di Mambro had forbidden this as he did not want any children to threaten his daughter’s prophesised place as the new messiah. They therefore left for Quebec, where they had their son. Di Mambro heard of the birth of their baby, and declared him to be the anti-Christ. The child, and their parents who were clearly trying to stand in the way of spiritual progression with their disobedience, had to be disposed of.
    With the damage Dutoit did in exposing Di Mambro and having the audacity to defect, it was clear to see why he became Di Mambro’s first victim.
     
    G RENOBLE,  F RANCE
     
    One year passed without incident before another mass suicide was