Germany’s top security officials said Friday they consider the goals of the U.S.-based Church of Scientology to be in conflict with the principles of the nation’s constitution and will seek to ban the group.
The interior ministers of the nation’s 16 states as well as federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble “consider Scientology to be an organization that is not compatible with the constitution,” Berlin Interior Minister Erhart Koerting, who presided over the officials’ two-day conference, told reporters.
