OPUS DEI STRIKES BACK
A very real case just happened in France.
A French thriller/crime novel titled CAMINO 999
by Catherine Fradier, recently published (March 2007) by a
very small independent firm, got a few days ago (31 May) an
official injunction by OPUS DEI, the plaintiff, claiming
because of so called "defamatory allegations" about the OP in
that book… and because of the use of "Camino 999" as title as
this is the way their founder/guru called one of his
"spiritual recommendations".
They ask for 40,000 US doll compensation, plus,
plus…
In fact they arrange the case to bankrupt the
publisher (himself an author of noir crime novels:
Jean-Jacques Reboux).
The book indeed speaks of the OPUS DEI, and
crime, and of the complicity of OD with General Franco during
his rebellion and reign (you know, Franco the Spanish
humanist…).
As usual, the author and the publisher are cited
as responsible, together.
All this for a book published as a novel !
This case is totally real and is no fantasy, not
as it was with the Dan Brown Code, for which OD protested
very softly. But they know where the power of money is
!
Maybe Dan Brown could help financially the French
publisher, in order to pay for a top lawyer to represent him,
or at least by backing up openly the novel, its author and
publisher…
I know, I'm dreaming…
Fell free to relay the information about CAMINO
999 in the publishing world around you.
If you read French, you may have a look at
Amazon.fr's presentation of the book, at :
http://www.amazon.fr/Camino-999-Catherine-Fradier/dp/2352270375
also at this page taking side for the book, and
reproducing a just issued public declaration by the publisher
and author, at :
http://www.gaucherepublicaine.org/,article,1423,,,,,_Quand-la-puissante-Opus-Dei-s-attaque-a-une-petite-maison-d-edition.htm
E.Borgers
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