Satanism: On behalf of the devil

Satanism is becoming more and more popular. Foremost among teenagers, all prey identified a movement which sometimes hides under the colors of fashion or the accents of black metal music. And the risk is great for them, not knowing how to distinguish delusions folk sectarian truly dangerous

January 2006. In the space of two weeks, Amandine Tatin, 20, and Ronan Cariou, 21, desecrate two cemeteries, a chapel burned, break into two churches and eventually exhume a corpse, which they tear the skull. All within a radius of thirty kilometers, between the departments of Morbihan and Finistère. Signed a wild "Fuck your life for Satan" and "666", the sign of the beast - the devil - in the book of the Apocalypse . Amandine, unemployed, recently Toulon. She dropped out of school after the third grade. His partner is a plumber thought. Together they collect skulls. Cops say the two young men have acted "hatred of all religions." Their provocations macabre may cost them ten years in prison.

Amandine and Ronan belong to this movement of young - and not so young - who call themselves followers of the devil. A growing movement that affects both teenagers down dream, esotericism thirsty adults sulfur and ultracontestataires who need to dress their sacred hateful ideologies. The strongest feed, including accurate, occult literature Baron Aleister Crowley, The Satanic Bible Mage American Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan and witchcraft manuals picks on the Internet. Fiercely anti-Christian, they see themselves as an elite and claim, by their magic rituals, eradicate religion, undermine the moral foundations of society in order to establish a new order in which they are masters. Beyond these bands sectarian, more movies, books, bands play BD or demonic rope and reach a broad audience, amateur folklore transgressive. Nihilism distilled by this new mode is accused by the experts supplying teenage depression.

According to the General Intelligence (RG), 30 places of worship have suffered desecration signed by Satanists in 2005 to 18 in 2004. These figures are lower than the reality because some of the actions of these occult groups eludes investigators. The Interministerial Mission of Vigilance and Combat against Sectarian Aberrations (Miviludes) is to provide police officers and a booklet with the principles of the doctrine of Satanism. It will mainly ad hoc appoint an expert, historian of religions Jacky Cordonnier, who will monitor the folder. This specialist sects, which tracks satanic manifestations in France since a dozen years, provides: Satan worship "is partly responsible for a growing number of teen suicides."

"Since 1996, the" luciférisme "folk rocked by violence"

Nicolas Claux, a Parisian of 33 years, has built a solid reputation in painting female corpses guts to air and portraits of serial killers. Sentenced to twelve years in prison in 1996 for murder and released in 2002, accused of desecration of graves followed by mutilation and cannibalism, it "practicing Satanist," as he defines himself, describes himself as "warrior chaos "follower of vampirism. Amateur fetish nights, it has faithful admirers among employees mortuaries and crematoria. According to the RG, the real devil's henchmen as Nicolas Claux officiate in "twenty bands unstructured, three or four members each." Which the Church of Satan, "institution" that American storefront in the United States and Great Britain and has a dozen French followers. In Anglo-Saxon countries as well as Russia, Turkey and Italy, these soldiers of Lucifer regularly about them occasionally sensational trials.

Emblem of witchcraft in the Middle Ages, Satan becomes, from the eighteenth century, the embodiment of a higher consciousness, freed from the shackles of morality and religion. Today, two major trends coexist: the Luciferians and the disciples of Anton LaVey, the father of modern Satanism. The first, who see the fallen angel Lucifer in the Bible, preach the debasement of the human species, a prelude to the return of the Antichrist. For the latter, which the Church was founded April 30, 1966, the anniversary of Hitler's death, the devil is only a force of nature reflecting the natural instincts of man that everyone should abandon s he wishes to rise above the ordinary. "Only flesh there," claims Anton LaVey in his Bible. And he adds: "Give blow for blow." A sort of "neither God nor master" Nietzschean which the American magician adds a touch of cruelty by inviting its readers to cast curses likely to "cause physical destruction, emotional or mental the sacrifice. "

Published at the end of January in France, The Satanic Bible has already passed in 2000 copies. A force to evacuate transcendence, all show and pretend to explain everything, modern society has rekindled thirst for mystery and darkness. Witness the recent successes are featured Satan: The Exorcism of Emily Rose Sheitan or to the movies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV, The Chronicles of the Black Moon, the Froideval, Ledroit and Pontet (Dargaud) in BD; The Circle of Blood, Jérôme Delafosse (Robert Laffont), in literature. "This is set out to give something missing, says sociologist Raymond Lemieux, professor at Laval University (Quebec). A figure that will help fight the anguish of existence. "In a poll Ifop of 2003, 27% of French people said they believe the devil.

"I threatened the other girls, it was very scary and we loved it"

Remember: 1996, Toulon Cemetery. A woman's body exhumed, inverted crucifix stuck into his flesh embalmed. "It is from there that the" luciférisme "folk, with black masses 10 and 000 francs to 30,000 sexual orgies, was rocked by violence," said an investigator. Layers of laurel, candelabra, blackened blood: on the floor of some crypts and chapels, walkers are sometimes strange relics witnessed a Black Mass celebrated in forms, with sex games, self-mutilation and sacrifice of animals. During their Sabbath night, the worshipers of evil can be found in the woods, abandoned quarries, catacombs, landmarks in the history of witchcraft, or in places that were once the scene of bloody events. Near Besançon, and Satanists have used to meet in a clearing where a serial killer had resulted in the shooting. According to the schedule wizard, they gather at Halloween or at the solstices and equinoxes. Sexual rituals are often of sadomaso trend. As this one, delivered by an investigator initiated managed to trap on the Internet in a cloud of incense, a woman and a "priest" is placed inside a circle. The lady practice fellatio on his partner and after a few "extras" scatological, gets anal in front of a third thief. The couple ended their libations by slashing veins and drinking the blood elapsed.

Simple little games with friends? Not always, as has been seen, at its expense, Jacky Cordonnier. In June 2005, the historian gets into her car and realizes that his brake pads have been cut. This is confirmed by the police. A month earlier, the specialist had received death threats on Internet forums Satanists. Devastating in their nihilism, fans of the devil sometimes go to action, as in 2004, when a boy was seriously injured in stabbing one serving Mass in Brittany. Crimes remain, fortunately, very rare. The last was in 1996. Victim of a "flash Satanist" David Oberdorf worker at Peugeot, 33 stabbings a priest Alsatian. The young man had fallen under the influence of Anthony Mignoni, one of the authors of the transferred barbaric Toulon Cemetery. Mignoni sentenced to four years in prison in 1997 for his feats Toulon, belonged to a neo-Nazi network of tombs Snatchers who practiced black masses, with Mein Kampf for missal. Also displayed their elitism, Satanism and Nazism have one thing in common: they both rely on a new order. But the nazis are wary of these satanists, where Hitler is a figure, among others, of absolute evil. Anthony Mignoni however contributed to the link between these two currents France. Amandine Tatin, the girl arrested in Britain in January, who knew him, may have acted under its influence. "There are now on the market suffering teenager, a fringe of people who want to propagate an ideology antisocial ensures Jacky Cordonnier. They think that if they can derail the youth, they will challenge the very foundations of society. "

Virginia was an easy prey: ill at ease, solitary, she never opened the shutters of her room, lit with candles and devoured books on magic. In a bookstore esoteric, schoolgirl Marseille met young Satanists. Soon, she finds herself in the evenings. "I opened the arm with a compass, I gravais 666, she said in a Radio Notre-Dame. I liked hurt me. "L'adolescente conceals his wounds under large dark sweaters. His parents often absent, do not notice anything. Virginia is happy. She finally found her tribe. "I threatened the other girls, it was very scary and we liked it." Jacky Cordonnier, passing through his college, the fate of his bad dream and warned students against the dangers of too much fascination for the devil isolation, disconnection from real suicide. It is the catch. Virginia confess everything to his parents. The girl receive threatening letters long: "If you do not return, Satan will come get you."

"No young Satanist becomes overnight, said Father Benedict Domergue, other specialist subject in France. It takes conditioning: concerts deafening that saturate the senses, ecstasy tablet to 10 euros and the culture of death in which bathe the kids. "A culture of death that trivializes the horror and sadism. Teens themselves say shared between repulsion and fascination with video games such as Manhunt and ultraviolents Resident Evil or sites like Rotten (Rotten French), which exhibit corpses and mutilated bodies and students familiar in the sixth.

"Man was created to break the harmony of nature"

Three-quarters of future Satanists begin by immersing in the Gothic movement, no evil in itself, but cultivates aesthetic evil. "Goth" species juvenile pallid eyes and rouged black scares the chap showing off her piercings and air disasters, version Lautréamont, on the sidewalks of major cities. In their shops, capes vampire room and 250 euros to 450 euros chalices alongside rings and pendants evil or posters of black metal bands, whose father Domergue has become over the years a specialist. March 2, at the Collège Sainte-Croix in Orléans, in the former chapter room filled with parents, the priest Bordeaux broadcast a clip of Marilyn Manson, wearing a cap Nazi concert. The priest wants to show how the former Reverend of the Church of Satan, acclaimed by audiences and critics, "puts young condition." This theologian, who does not hesitate to slip into raves, keeps in his PC another video of the song The Saint, which shows Manson scarify wholesale plan to link lines of coke, nose blood, and make a cunnilingus to a naked girl attached. The clip ends with the image of two giants planting a huge needle into the forearm Manson.

The "pure" however, prefer the black metal. Ulrich witness Dagoth, the singer Otargos Bordeaux. In his concerts, this fair Frankenstein screams to death in front of a large canvas depicting a black goat carcass, the logo of the band. A tattoo on the arm decapitated Christ, he explains that he believes "the chaos and collapse one-dimensional." A story for children, compared to some Scandinavian groups, as Burzum, who burned churches and trucidaient between rivals in the late 1990s. "Let the massacre begin / Behead Christians / Rape their wives and children / Their graves should be desecrated," shouted the Norwegian band Dimmu Borgir (the name of a range of Icelandic lava). Today, "most have calmed down in words, but not necessarily in the spirit, seen Sven Letourneur, editor of the magazine Rock Hard Magazine. The satanic metal back much of the world. " Cradle of Filth (Cradle of filth), whose musicians drink blood on stage, so does packed house at the Elysée Montmartre (1500 seats). His latest album has sold 16,000 copies. Besides the multitude of small groups that have arisen in recent years.

Sitting at the bottom of the locomotive, a nightclub in Pigalle, Leo, 16, sipping a beer while waiting for the concert Dark Funeral. "Man was created to break the harmony of nature, says the boy, fingering his jacket covered in names of metal bands. Must lead to the extinction of the human race. "An example? "If I see a bum on the street, I do not give him a ring." Satanism remains a challenge for many teens. But some go further, harpooned by extremists on the Internet - swarming the blogs and forums devoted to Satanism - in tattoo shops and piercing, or at the end of black metal concerts.

One summer evening, Alexander, goth young age of 14, saw "by chance", he said, a group of young people on the beach. The kids were busy for a black cat freshly slain, they had to remove the heart and viscera. "They drew a pentagram on the floor with the entrails of the beast, and then placed around candles and recited prayers Satanic sew chat before sliding stones inside the body," says the boy. Extend the same game at home, by tinkering altars with skulls and crossbones recovered in cemeteries. Result: "These kids become antisocial and unable to love, the father observes Domergue. They speak only links that bind. "

In September 2005, Marion, aged 14, was thrown from the top of a tower of Ivry-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris with a friend. "Satanism had invaded his life," said a judicial source. His parents, immigrants modest Chilean believed a passing fad. His friends admired the girl with red hair medium for his talents. Marion invented adventures libertines. Of shoots to hard drugs. She was a fan of the metal band Anorexia nervosa, some words are an apology for suicide and self-harm. "One might think that 5% of suicides recorded annually among children under 25 years, or a hundred, are linked to Satanism," said Jean-Michel Roulet, President Miviludes. The police are less alarmist.

Satanism can push young people who self-harm suffer from an old crack. "The disinhibition that can sometimes lead to unconsciousness young the scope of its actions, the analysis psychiatrist Marie-Michèle Bourrat. At first, the teenager thought control everything. Then it feels like possessed. It seeks to both control and loss of self. There is risk. "What to do? Padlocked computer? Speak hammer shrinks. Advise the parent. And go almost looks like the universe. Without demonizing.

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