{"id":515978,"date":"2023-01-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=515978"},"modified":"2023-01-28T20:24:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T19:24:17","slug":"the-fraternity-the-solar-temple-drama-seen-from-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/company\/the-fraternity-the-solar-temple-drama-seen-from-the-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abThe Brotherhood\u00bb: the drama of the Solar Temple seen from the inside"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost thirty years after the massacres of the Order of the Solar Temple, a documentary series takes an in-depth look at the human reasons behind the tragedy. A story enriched by archives and never-before-seen eyewitness accounts, it lifts the veil even further on sectarian horror.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

No one has forgotten the tragedy. Mass killings and suicides that claimed the lives of 74 people in Switzerland, France and Quebec. All linked to the Order of the Solar Temple (OTS) sect. Numerous films and documentaries have already been made about this affair with its many grey areas. With The Brotherhood<\/em>, journalist Eric Lemasson and director Pierre Morath have co-written a documentary series that sheds further light on the tragedies of 1994, 1995 and 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This well-crafted work, which exploits the codes of the series, gives the floor to former OTS protagonists who have remained silent until now, and reveals unpublished archives of the organization. All of which enriches a narrative that strives to trace the resolutely human origins of fanatical escalation. A tour de force on the part of Radio T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Suisse (RTS), which already holds a place of choice among the channel's offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the climax, the genesis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Previous productions on the subject have used the OTS massacres as an anchor for their stories. Such is the case with Solar Temple: the impossible investigation<\/em> (2022), which attempts to unravel the judicial elements in the style of a detective story. A prospect akin to a \u00abbottomless pit\u00bb, series co-writer Pierre Morath told the newspaper Le Temps<\/em>. The Brotherhood<\/em> reverses the perspective, narrating events before the OTS was even founded. From the very first seconds of the documentary, the focus is on what convinced the group to join in the first place. Brotherhood, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this way, the Order appears first and foremost not as the dangerous sect we know it to be today, but as the Eldorado of humanity that its first members found there. \u00abThere was a love, a sharing, a spirituality that I had never seen elsewhere\u00bb, in the words of conductor Michel Tabachnik, a former member. He adds that the community was also \u00abvery open to the world\u00bb. It was indeed in the soil of love and benevolence that the craziest esoteric beliefs germinated and developed, right up to the macabre \u00abtransit to Sirius\u00bb, the consecration of sect members supposed to take place through death. A tragic end also made possible by a series of manipulations on the part of guru Joseph Di Mambro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michel Tabachnik, number three or scapegoat<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Michel Tabachnik was long considered the third man of the OTS. He even chaired the Golden Way Foundation, from which the sect grew. The story is largely based on his testimony, which is eloquent and sometimes painful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n