INVESTIGATION – This nefarious South Korean organization is stepping up its recruitment drive in France. Targeting young people who are cut off from their families overnight.
They are regularly seen in Paris train stations. They wear white or yellow clothing, like their guru’s tie and shirt. The women in their group sometimes wear lipstick, symbolizing the blood of Jesus. Members of the Korean movement “New Heaven New Earth or “Shincheonji “In Paris, but also in other major French cities, they are redoubling their efforts to recruit new followers. One evening earlier this year, 25-year-old Billy was walking to rehearsal for a gospel concert he was attending. He needed a telephone – his own had broken down – to find his way. He asks a stranger for help. “Bad luck, he’s part of the cult”.he tells Figaro. A dialogue soon develops between the two men. “He says, “Interesting, are you Christian? I tell him yes. He immediately offers me to take part in Bible classes.”. As a believer, Billy accepted this harmless offer. His interlocutor gives him his number by writing it on his hand. The dialogue begins. Little did the young man know that he was dealing with one of the links in a controversial organization closely monitored by the French authorities. A movement led by a mysterious leader-pastor-guru and self-proclaimed messiah, Lee Man-hee, “whose followers are convinced that he is immortal”.says an intelligence source.