Jouret, Luc
From Astro-Databank
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| born on | 18 October 1947 at 10:04 (= 10:04 AM ) | ||
| Place | Kikwit, Zaire, 5s02, 18e49 | ||
| Timezone | MET h1e (is standard time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   24°08'   13°39 Asc. 02°46'
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Biography
Belgian-Canadian cultist, born in Zaire, the charismatic leader of the Solar Temple Order. He was held responsible for the violent death, a mass murder of collective suicide, of 53 of his following, 48 in Switzerland and 5 in Canada, on 10/04/1994.
A handsome physician, he worked with a colleague, Joseph di Mambro, 69, a French-Canadian known as "the dictator," the financial mastermind of the cult. Believed to be about ten years old, the Order had an estimated 300 members to whom they preached a hodgepodge of Catholic conservationism and apocalypse.
On 1/05/1994, police found what was first considered to be a mass cult suicide in Switzerland, 23 bodies in the half burned out ruins of a farm in Cheiry, 45 miles north-east of Geneva. Another 25 bodies were uncovered in three chalets at Granges-sur-Salvan in the Swiss alps and five more in a villa in Morin Heights, Canada, about 50 miles north-west of Montreal. It was soon found to be mass murder, not suicides. Three of the Quebec victims, including a three-month-old baby, were stabbed to death. Those in Switzerland had been shot, suffocated with plastic bags over their heads or burned to death. The fires had been set off with timers.
On October 13th, Jouret's and Mambro's bodies were found. Jouret had died in Granges the evening of 10/04/1994. It was believed that rising tensions between the two men over cult control and over vast sums of money invested in properties may have been the motive.
Relationships
- business associate/partner relationship with Di Mambro, Joseph Leonce (born 19 August 1924)
Events
- Crime : Homicide Perpetration 4 October 1994 (Homicide and suicide of some 60 people)
- Death by Suicide 4 October 1994 (Suicide with the cult, age 46, (-14 days))
- Misc. : Find something 5 January 1994 (23 bodies found)
Source Notes
Petitallot quotes a colleague who was given the data by Jouret himself, Cadran No.16 and No.17, 1995
Categories
- Traits : Personality : Charismatic (Hypnotic leadership)
- Vocation : Medical : Physician
- Vocation : Religion : Cult leader (The Solar Temple Order)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Homicide many at once (Up to 106 people)
- Personal : Death : Suicide (Mass cult death)
- Notable : Famous : Criminal cases (Led cult to death)
- Lifestyle : Work : Work in team/ Tandem (Cult partnership with Joseph di Mambro)
