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Friday January 5, 2007

Beam them up, Heidi – Remembering the Las Canadas suicide sect scare

On January 8, 1998, the BBC Reported that Spanish police claimed to have prevented a possible suicide attempt by members of a cult based in Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands.

Monday January 19, 1998

Near-Death Experience

Thirty-two Germans and one Spanish woman believed they were about to be lifted from Earth by a spaceship. Failing that, they were to commit group suicide.

Heide Fittkau-Garthe • Isis Holistic Centre:

Tenerife suicide cult followers donated almost two million

Spanish police have found that the alleged leader of a cult who incited her followers to commit mass suicide on the Spanish island of Tenerife earlier this month amassed over 300 million pesetas or almost two million dollars from her followers, Spanish TV reported.

Tuesday January 13, 1998

Heide Fittkau-Garthe • Isis Holistic Centre:

Doomsday cult members arrested

Police in the Spanish Canary Islands have arrested 19 members of a religious movement accusing them of attempting mass suicide for the second time in a week.

Sunday January 11, 1998

Heide Fittkau-Garthe • Isis Holistic Centre:

Cult leader sent to jail

A Spanish judge has sent a German cult leader to jail on charges that she planned a mass suicide of her group’s members.

Friday January 9, 1998

Heide Fittkau-Garthe • Isis Holistic Centre:

Spanish police foil mass suicide

Spanish police say they have prevented a possible collective suicide attempt by members of a cult based in Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands.

Heide Fittkau-Garthe • Isis Holistic Centre:

Cult’s suicide plans doomed

The authorities on the Spanish island of Tenerife say they have foiled an attempt by members of a religious sect to commit mass suicide.

Heide Fittkau-Garthe • Isis Holistic Centre:

Mass suicide bid on top of Tenerife’s volcano fails

Spanish police foiled a mass suicide planned by a 30-strong sect whose members believed their souls would be carried away by spaceship from the summit at Tenerife’s Teide volcano, yesterday.