Suspected of sectarian drift, Elysée Ade, a 53-year-old Franco-Beninese, is due to appear from Monday until October 10 before the Paris Criminal Court.
He will be tried for "abuse of weakness by psychological subjection" between 2009 and 2015 and for aggravated sexual assault.
Imposed kung fu sessions, masturbation, compulsory fasts… This fifty-year-old, who called himself an “angel”, considered himself at the head of an army, the “warriors of light”, supposed to bring peace in the world.
They called themselves "the Warriors of Lights".
At the head of this army, supposed to bring peace in the world, a master thinker, follower of conspiracy theories and self-proclaimed "angel": Elysée Ade, a 53-year-old Franco-Beninese.
For years, this man, endowed according to him with paranormal powers,
subjugated dozens of people, "totally cutting them off from the world", according to investigators.
Suspected of sectarian aberrations by the courts, Elysée Ade will be tried from this Monday at the Paris Criminal Court for "abuse of weakness by psychological subjection" on twenty-two people, between 2009 and 2015 and for sexual assault on one of 'between them.
Elysée Ade's "ready to think"
Because in order to deserve their "chosen" status with their guru, the followers of Elysée Ade had to comply with
instructions
strict to get rid of their "ego".
Starting with kung-fu training, every Friday evening and Sunday morning at Parc de la Villette in Paris (19th arrondissement).
Free sessions, given by the Franco-Beninese for several hours, sometimes even “until exhaustion”.
The training also continued during personal therapy sessions, with Elysée Ade in the role of the psychologist.
Despite the absence of a diploma from the guru in this field, these compulsory sessions, which lasted for around twenty weeks for some, were charged 50 euros.
The most deserving of them also attended philosophy classes, called "wisdom classes" or "awakening circle", where the man broadcast a "ready to think".
Lessons during which he denounced various conspiracy theories, such as the poisoning of air and water or the famous thesis of "cheminal trails".
According to this theory, certain white trails created by the passage of aircraft in flight would be composed of chemical or biological agents deliberately spread at high altitude by government agencies for reasons concealed from the general public.
To spread his ideas on a planetary scale, Elysée Ade did not hesitate to found a company called "Invisible Light Company", financed to the tune of 230,000 euros by his followers and which has never had the slightest official activity.
“Female Orgasm Xpert”
And beware of the disciples who questioned the word of the "Sage".
While some were ridiculed or humiliated in public, others were "retired" from the group by Elysée Ade.
The man forced them to stay at home, forcing them to plank for three hours, to fast, to take cold showers or even to sleep on the ground to “lower their ego”.
Among the requirements imposed by the guru on his followers, that of “absolute mastery” of their bodies.
The 50-year-old notably pushed women to fast for dozens of days to reach a “pathological” weight, according to investigators.
One of the complainants dropped below 39 kilos.
The submission continued in private.
Reportedly, Elysée Ade "made and unmade" couples as he pleased within the group, pushing its members to practice swinging or women to have sex with each other.
The latter were "trained" to become "FOX" (Female Orgasm Xpert).
They had to practice masturbation at least five times a day with sex toys to master what the guru called the “8 Orgasmic Gates”.
"At level 8, the woman enjoys so much that she makes an astral projection, she finds herself propelled out of her body for a few seconds", summarized the man in front of the investigators.
Elysée Ade sometimes organized group sessions at his home, masturbating himself in turn the women present with a vibrator, renamed "Magic Wand".
During one of these sessions, a plaintiff lost her virginity, masturbated by her guru with the sex toy.
An act for which the fifty-year-old is being prosecuted for aggravated sexual assault.
Markers of a sectarian drift
The grip is woven
daily.
Every day, the members had to report all their actions via a chat on which Elysée Ade distributed the orders and distributed the roles of each.
The man went so far as to choose the clothing of his followers and the professional orientations.
“We were, according to him, under his energy protection.
Leaving it is as if you no longer put on your helmet or if you drive with your eyes closed,” one of the complainants explained to the police.
For Me Rodolphe Bosselut, lawyer for some of the plaintiffs, the file presents all the markers of a sectarian drift: "There is a conditioning of all the participants in the group, a psychological subjection which goes through the break with the family, parents, previous behaviors.
Members lose all free will, group life is exclusive of any other life, friendly, social or professional.
Everyone is bunkered.
The exterior is demonized.
The only one with the truth is Elysée Ade, ”explains the council.
"I've been pleading this kind of case for 30 years and I've never seen it," adds the lawyer.
Contacted, Elysée Ade's lawyer did not respond to our requests.
At the end of the six-day trial, the guru risks up to seven years in prison.
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