Editing Order of the Solar Temple (section)

=== Vercors ===
{{main|1995 Vercors massacre}}

On the morning of 16 December 1995, 14 members of the OTS, including three children, were immolated in a circular star-formation in an isolated [[Glade (geography)|clearing]] on the [[Vercors massif]], near [[Saint-Pierre-de-Chérennes]] in [[France]]. Two other bodies were found near them.{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=148}}{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=236}} The investigation conducted by the [[Grenoble]] Gendarmerie hypothesized that the 14 people, including three children, took sedative pills; then Jean-Pierre Lardanchet and André Friedli shot each member in the head one by one with two [[.22 Long Rifle|.22 caliber]] rifles. After that, they poured [[gasoline]] on the bodies and set them on fire, before they both shot themselves in the head with two [[.357 Magnum]] revolvers.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|pp=232–234}} The bodies of the two perpetrators were found alongside the burned ones.{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=148}}{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=236}} On 23 December 1995, the 16 bodies were discovered after a missing persons investigation by the gendarmerie, after having been led to the bodies by a hunter.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|pp=234–235}}

The plot had been orchestrated by Christiane Bonet, a devoted former member of the OTS who said she could commune with Jouret and Di Mambro from the afterlife.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|pp=218–222}} Some of those who died left behind notes where they discussed that they would "see another world".{{sfn|Wessinger|2000|p=219}} Investigators concluded that of the 16 dead, at least four had not died willingly.{{sfn|Lewis|2004|pages=296–297}}