A quote from a press statement of the Church of Scientology, 5 September 2007:

[T]he leaking [by the Belgian public prosecutor] of this information [about an investigation into crimes allegedly committed by the Scientology Church] to the press constitutes the latest evidence of the prosecution’s bad faith: due to the utter lack of substance behind this ten year “investigation”, the prosecution is reduced to raising its hollow charges through the press rather than through the Rule of Law in court.

The unlawful leaking of information to the media about this investigation constitutes nothing less than harassment as well as a violation of the right to due process and a fair trial guaranteed by Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

These actions represent the latest incident in a ten-year pattern of using the media to generate a climate of intolerance and discrimination against Scientology churches and parishioners in Belgium to bolster a groundless case.

The Church of Scientology of Belgium has already filed complaints three times for similar egregious violations of its fundamental rights – in each case, information from the case file was leaked to the public unlawfully. These bad faith actions continue, underlying this pattern and practice of harassment that taints this case.