L'Ordre du Temple Solaire

The Order of the Solar Temple (OTS), first known as the Chivalrous Order of Solar Tradition, is an esoteric group neo-Templar founded in 1984 in Geneva by Luc Jouret and Jo Di Mambro following the Golden Way Foundation of this latest. This false order is mainly known for collective suicides in France, in Switzerland and in Canada having made in all 74 victims in 1994, 1995 and 1997 and for the controversies which followed. The case has been a major factor in the hardening of the fight against sects in France.