62 Facts About Luc Jouret

Luc Jouret was the group's public face, but in his role internal to the group, he was subservient to DiMambro.

Luc Jouret then died from poisoning, alongside 24 other members in Salvan.

Luc Georges Marc Jean Jouret was born on 18 October 1947 in Kikwit, in what was then the Belgian Congo.

Luc Jouret's father Napoleon Jouret had studied in Germanic languages and was a local government official in Belgium, while Fernande was a housewife.

Luc Jouret was born a year later; he was a sickly child, suffering from rickets, pulmonary issues, whooping cough, as well as nutritional issues in his early life.

In 1954, when Luc Jouret was six, he fractured his skull after being hit by a cyclist.

Luc Jouret aimed to become a teacher in physical education.

Napoleon Luc Jouret, then a school administrative manager, was an avid secularist and progressive critic of Belgian society.

Luc Jouret created an organization opposing Catholic influence in Wallonia, of which he was president.

Luc Jouret left home at about 21 years of age, under violent circumstances.

At the age of 20, Luc Jouret began to experience severe pain and was diagnosed with coxarthrosis, a diagnosis unusual for someone his age.

Luc Jouret's condition seemed to improve after a year, but he was still unable to achieve his previous aims, instead choosing to focus on medicine.

Gradually Luc Jouret's condition began to improve, which he attributed to homeopathy, and he received his medical degree.

Luc Jouret became interested in a variety of alternative medicine, including iridology, macrobiotics, and acupuncture in addition to homeopathy.

Luc Jouret became interested in politics, particularly Maoism, and joined the Union of Communist Students.

Luc Jouret travelled widely studying various forms of alternative and spiritual healing; it is known that he visited the Philippines in 1977, and he later stated he had visited China, Peru, and India.

Luc Jouret established a homeopathic practice, initially in Belgium, starting in the late 1970s.

Luc Jouret was immediately a favorite of Di Mambro; he encouraged his ambitions and exempted him from a member's typical work.

At the time he met Di Mambro, Luc Jouret was having marital and personal problems.

Pertue and Luc Jouret had only recently gotten married, but they continued to argue; Luc Jouret aggravated Pertue's anorexic tendencies by policing her diet making sure she was vegetarian.

Luc Jouret was extremely excited to be a father, and saw it from an esoteric angle.

Luc Jouret was born with a serious heart defect, and was taken to the intensive care unit in the Brussels University Hospital.

The funeral was conducted secretly with no one else invited, with Luc Jouret leaving highly specific requirements for the funeral marker.

Luc Jouret later expressed to his friends that he was reassured by the fact that his son had died "pure"; he told another that he was relieved his son was dead because had he lived his life would have been limited due to the defect.

Di Mambro arranged for Luc Jouret to meet Julien Origas, the founder of the Renewed Order of the Temple, who Di Mambro was close to.

In 1983, after the death of Origas, Di Mambro urged Luc Jouret to take over ORT, and he became its new grand master the same year.

Luc Jouret then formed and lead a schismatic group of 30 ORT members, which opened branches in Martinique and Quebec.

Luc Jouret was the outward image and primary recruiter for this organization, though Di Mambro was the actual leader.

However, according to former member Thierry Huguenin, inside the order Luc Jouret was simply like everyone else having a job to do; he was the "Grand Master", but Di Mambro was the "secret master" unknown to the public.

In 1984, Luc Jouret was ordained as a priest by Jean Laborie, a "self-proclaimed bishop" and dissident Roman Catholic.

Laborie had been contacted by Luc Jouret, asking him to be ordained.

Laborie still had some concerns, to which Luc Jouret blatantly lied and suggested his motivation to become a priest was a desire to evangelize, and after becoming one he would move to Africa to preach the word of Laborie's church; his actual motive was to obtain more power over the group, gaining the movement prestige.

Luc Jouret ordained Thierry Huguenin, another member alongside Jouret, and two other members.

Luc Jouret traveled a wide conference and lecture circuit in hotels and universities in several countries.

Luc Jouret was a popular lecturer to Francophone audiences in both North America and Europe, with one commentator describing him as "something of a phenomenon".

Luc Jouret was known as an excellent speaker, and according to former member Hermann Delorme:.

At the head of the Martinique branch was Pierre Celtan, who in his decision making would always refer to Luc Jouret ; he was described as "seduced" by Luc Jouret.

Luc Jouret began to give more Amenta Club conferences there, to hundreds of listeners, the wealthiest of whom were drawn into the group.

Luc Jouret told Giron that while he tried to be comfortable with all the races, "it must be recognized that they have different abilities".

Luc Jouret was noted to act "haughty, distant, or frankly contemptuous" to black members of the Solar Temple in Martinique, while accepting the whites.

The members were terrified, but Luc Jouret gave them a solution, which was to move to the group's Canadian base, which he said would be protected due to it sitting upon a large granite plate with a strong magnetic field.

Luc Jouret predicted that Quebec would be spared from the apocalypse.

Luc Jouret told the Martinican members that if they did not move to Quebec, they would die; 30 members took up this offer, selling their houses and leaving the spouses and children who did not want to go along.

Luc Jouret advised them to not pay taxes and borrow huge amounts of money, used to fund the new location in Quebec, as after they died it would not matter.

Luc Jouret assured them that it was merely a "remission", but that the apocalypse would soon come and it was more important than ever to maintain the location in Canada.

Luc Jouret was viewed as a dictator by the Quebec members of the group, and was not present often as he constantly traveled.

Canadian members began to question him, and Luc Jouret was replaced as the Grand Master of the Sacred Heart commune by Robert Falardeau in about 1990.

Luc Jouret founded a separate group, or ARCHS, taking several loyal members with him.

Luc Jouret, having given up his profession as a homeopath to devote himself fully to the OTS, began lecturing on personal development at various companies, universities and banks, mainly in Quebec.

Luc Jouret eventually abandoned his activities and became totally dependent on Di Mambro.

Luc Jouret slowly became less prominent in the leadership role of the Solar Temple and quit its executive committee in January 1993.

Luc Jouret was terrified, and expressed to a friend that he had no choice but to leave in light of the threats he had received.

Luc Jouret asked Giron to add to the group's survival kits iodine, to help them survive a nuclear explosion.

Every summer solstice Luc Jouret sent all the members a message; in the message in 1991, Luc Jouret instead sent an "indecipherable cosmic jumble", invoking a variety of esoteric elements.

Luc Jouret pleaded guilty, but obtained conditional discharge at his request, which kept his criminal record clean and allowed him to keep practicing medicine.

Luc Jouret was silent during the trial, and immediately returned to Switzerland, having spent less than 24 hours in Quebec.

Delorme never spoke to him again after the incident, but Vinet told him that Luc Jouret was "changed" and that he became a "tired, tired, tired, disappointed, disillusioned person".

Luc Jouret began speaking of the "transit" concept previously established by Di Mambro.

Luc Jouret's mother was extremely worried about him due to his obsession with the apocalypse and his pessimistic outlook.

The next month he called a former friend who had recently become slightly distanced from the group; Luc Jouret begged him to meet up.

The next day, Luc Jouret was in Salvan, where records and eyewitness testimony place him on the phone, and was seen late in the day at a restaurant with others.

Luc Jouret's body was found in the second chalet in Salvan, having fallen on a beam from the intermediate floor.