This long legal saga, fueled by complaints for abuse of weakness, denunciation of sectarian aberrations, closed and dismissed cases, reopening of investigations and multiple dismissals, may be coming to an end with the rendering of the judgment. this Monday by the Dijon court.
Apparitions of the Virgin
Everything would have started on August 16, 1996, at a place called La porte du Diable, in a forest near Plombières-lès-Dijon, where Eliane Deschamps, in front of a handful of witnesses, including her own daughter, would have had an apparition of the Virgin. Mary; apparitions supposed to be renewed every 15th of the month. Éliane Deschamps and her accomplice will then create the prayer group, “Notre-Dame de la Paix”, which will become “Amour et Miséricorde”.
In the first years, dozens of followers will join this group, attending the “apparitions” and weekends of prayer, including a smaller circle of relatives who will form a community, following the gourelle and his acolyte to the rhythm. .