GRENOBLE - French police, fearing a fifth collective suicide, rounded up more than 30 members of the Order of the Solar Temple sect this week. The Interior Ministry said police had detained the disciples after three months of surveillance.
Sixteen sun worshippers, eluding several children, died in a remote French Alpine forest clearing in December, in the sect's fourth suicide-cum-murder. Justice sources said the operation was intended to prevent a repeat massacre.
