European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 r the stars and stripes monday october 10,1994cult finances foreign ties probed Geneva apr the investigation into the cult deaths of 53 people in Switzerland and Canada found ties to France Ana possibly Australia As the wealth and reach of its leaders became More apparent sunday. Adding to the mystery the passports of Joseph Dimambro a cult Leader and his wife Jocelyne have been delivered to the French Interior ministry said a statement from the ministry. The ministry declined to say if it knew who sent the passports or Why. Swiss news Media have reported that witnesses have identified the bodies of Dimambro and his wife among 25 victims recovered from fire damaged chalets in southwestern Switzerland. But Swiss authorities said that the witnesses identification is unreliable and that none of the chalet victims has yet been identified. Meanwhile French police have uncovered an intricate incendiary device at a Villa used by the cult in the South of France a key Swiss investigator said. No one was found at the Villa. the device which could have been triggered by a coded Telephone Call was like the bombs that set off fires last week apparently to hide evidence of the deaths of 48 people in the chalets and a farm in Switzerland and five people in a building in Canada. The sect was known As the order of the solar Temple in Canada and the order of the solar tradition m judge Andrs filler said at Granges Pac cot Switzerland on saturday that a a it a quite possible Quot the deaths have a link to Australia but he declined to elaborate. A police spokesman beat Karlen said sunday that three canadians were among bodies positively identified from 23 who died at the Swiss farm which is about 45 Miles from the chalets. Media reports in Canada and Australia have said that Dimambro and the other Leader Luc Jouret were using the cult As a front for arms trafficking through Australia and Money laundering in Swiss Banks. In an unconfirmed account an official of the Royal Bank in Ottawa said the Bank tipped off Canadian police last july about suspicious activity in an Ottawa account of a cult member. Switzerland has issued an International warrant for the arrest of Jouret and Dimambro on suspicion of arson and premeditated homicide but Piller said he Wasny to sure that they were still alive. Both of them were seen near the chalets hours before they burned and it is probable that they were near the farm before it burned Swiss investigators said Money clearly has been no problem for Jouret and Dimambro. Restaurant owners and headwaters in the Geneva area have been coming Forward with accounts that the two leaders were charming and frequent guests who enjoyed expensive meals with other cult members. Dimambro or another guest would usually pay for the entire group which sometimes ran to 30 people with at typical Tab of $2,300, the restaurateurs said. Collector s double dose of Luck was in the cards thanks to of. By Carlos Bongioanni staff writer Heidelberg Germany a Kimo Fernandez Felt like the happiest kid on the Block after securing a sports trading card autographed by of. Simpson. The 31-year-old was even More ecstatic when he purchased another Box of signature rookies trading cards and found a second autographed card inside. A�?o1 believe my Luck a a exclaimed a jubilant Fernandez. As an employee at the sports closet a trading card outlet in Heidelberg Fernandez had first dibs at the stores inventory. Quot when signature rookies first came out with their fall football packages 1 figured i might get one through them. 1 bought four boxes 18 packages a Box 432 cards total and anticipated getting an . Card every time i opened a package. Nothing turned up so i gave up finding one Quot he said. A then i heard signature rookies was putting the . Cards in their tet Rad packages. We originally ordered two boxes and that a when i got my first a the store later ordered two More boxes a and the second card turned up. The store has ordered two additional boxes in Hopes of continued Good Fortune. A a Fernandez said that signature Rook is approached Simpson several months ago in his loss Angeles jail cell and had him sign 2,500 cards. The football legend is being held there without bail while standing trial for the slayings of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her Friend Ronald Goldman. The signed cards were then disbursed among 52,000 boxes of. Tet Rad multiple sport trading cards. The chances of getting an of. Signature card arc 374-1, if buying single packages of six cards at $12.50 a pack. The Odds Are better at approximately 20-1 if buying an entire Box of cards for $210. Fernandez said he became interested trading cards last octo bar when he started playing for an american German football team in Bruchal. A it can become addicting Quot. A 1. A amps Carina Bonglo annl Kimo Fernandez shows off one of his of. Simpson signature cards and others that came in a package he bought in Heidelberg Germany. Admitted Fernandez. A i spent about about $2,800 per card at retail shops in $1,900 this past year in cards but the the states. Resale value is about $3,200�?� a a a in a going to obviously keep one and Fernandez said he has heard rumours use the other one to Send my kid that the . Signatures Are Worth through College Quot Fernandez joked. Skinhead gang terrorizes Berlin train passengers Berlin apr a group of about 20 right Wing skinheads rampaged on a Berlin commuter train beating and robbing passengers including a Man from Mozambique police said sunday. The skinheads beat seven people and stole leather jackets and jewelry from them. The 37-year-od Man from Mozambique was among those beaten and suffered slight injuries police said. The extremists also tried to push a Man off the train but a female passenger intervened and the skinheads gave up police arrested three other skinheads for damaging another train. A ghanaian Man was stabbed beaten and kicked out of a moving train in Berlin last month and lost a foot. German Ultra rightists have killed at least 16 foreigners since German unification in 1990. Aid resumes to in Effort to beat Winter Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr the International Airlift that keeps Sarajevo alive resumed sunday bringing Aid to a City with Only three Days supplies left. In an attempt to build up supplies ahead of Winter and a possible shutdown of the Airport by bosnian serbs 19 . Aid flights and two red Cross planes were scheduled. Eleven of the Aid planes from Ancona Italy and split Croatia had touched Down by noon said Peter Kessler a . Aid Agency spokesman in Zagreb Croatia. The resumption of Aid to the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina followed a sniper attack on streetcars in Central Sarajevo on saturday that killed one Man and wounded 11, including five children. Pools of blood stained pavement and two of the empty trams. A . Spokesman maj. Herve Gourm Enlon said the fire came frown bosnian serbian positions around the jewish cemetery. Reinforced anti sniper teams patrolled near the Holiday inn along a sniper alleys on sunday to try to prevent a repeat of saturdays deadly attack. Some 1,100 shooting incidents were recorded saturday the highest totals in recent months he said. The warring sides had signed an anti sniping Accord in August. A a a. The Airlift which provides about 80 percent City a food was suspended saturday just a Day after it was restarted following a two week shutdown. Forces warring sides each fired on planes Friday but no one was injured. Soldiers collecting for Ukraine school Friedberg Germany a amps a members of the . Military Community Are joining German citizens to collect donations for a school for the Blind in Kiev Ukraine. Donations sought include clothing classroom items and canned goods. Friedberg soldiers will make rounds once a week this month in Friedberg and Koch Gons to collect items. Volunteers from Frankfurt and bad Wilbel will leave nov. 10 in a Convoy of trucks donated by German companies to deliver the goods to Kiev. For More information Call Jack b. Herron at Dan 324-3208 or 324-3508, or civilian 06031-81-3208 or 06031-81-3508
