In addition to the head of the organization, fourteen people were or must be presented to an investigating judge on Friday with a view to being indicted in this sprawling case.
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He is the founder of an international sect accused of numerous abuses under the guise of practicing yoga. Gregorian Bivolaru, 71, was indicted on Friday, December 1, for rape, abuse of weakness, kidnapping and human trafficking in an organized gang, AFP learned from a judicial source. During a hearing at the Paris court, a liberty and detention judge decided to place him in pre-trial detention. “I I’m sorry about this decision.”reacted to AFP his lawyer, Anis Harabi. “We will work on the file and establish his innocence”he assured.
In addition to Gregorian Bivolaru, fourteen people were or must be presented to an investigating judge on Friday. And this, with a view to their indictment in this sprawling case which required the intervention of 175 police officers to carry out around forty arrests on Tuesday.
With white beard and hair, Gregorian Bivolaru, of Romanian and Swedish nationality, appeared with dark circles in the box during a hearing before this judge. “There is really reason to examine in depth the conditions in which you develop your doctrine and bring in followers of the organization that you lead and of which you are the senior figure with an extremely powerful aura”, she explained to him. Well known in Romania, Gregorian Bivaloru is the founding figure of the Movement for Spiritual Integration towards the Absolute (Misa). This ancient group, renamed Atman during its expansion outside Romania, presents itself as focused on the practice of tantric yoga.
