Editing Order of the Solar Temple (section)

=== Media response ===
Many different narratives about what exactly had happened and what had led to the deaths resulted.{{sfn|Introvigne|Mayer|2002|p=174}} Initial media and [[anti-cult movement]] responses focused largely on the idea that the members had been brainwashed, but when the relative affluence of the members was realized, they were considered by some to not fit the typical conception of a brainwashing victim.{{sfn|Introvigne|Mayer|2002|p=175}}{{sfn|Introvigne|2000|pp=154–155}} 

In the following years, the French media accused other cults/sects of being like the Solar Temple, plotting their own mass suicides; included among them the [[Unification Church]] and [[Scientology]], as well as [[Aumists]] and [[Raëlism|Raëlians]].{{sfn|Palmer|2011|p=9}} The Raëlians were particularly affected by this, repeatedly accused of plotting mass suicide. The leader of the Raëlians, [[Raël]], responded to the affair by saying: "If those idiots in the Solar Temple decided to kill themselves, that is not our problem" and "why do the journalists always call me for comment when there's a collective suicide? I don’t want to die! I want to be around to piss them off for a long time!"{{sfn|Palmer|2011|pp=98–99}} The Raëlians put out a press release stating that suicide was against their belief system.{{sfn|Palmer|2011|pp=98–99}} The Aumists were also affected, being told by the police that there was a rumor they would commit mass suicide "like the Solar Temple".{{sfn|Palmer|2011|p=53}} In January 1998, a group called the [[Atman Foundation]] was suspected of plotting ritual suicide in the [[Teide National Park]] in the [[Canary Islands]]; police of the island had announced they had prevented another OTS suicide, which made headlines around the world. It was later clarified that they were unrelated groups. Later investigations of that group failed to turn up proof of the ritual suicide allegation, and the leader was acquitted of all charges.{{sfn|Richardson|2004|p=157}}{{sfn|Palmer|2011|p=54}} 

In the trial and media coverage of [[Néo-Phare]], a small French cult, the group was frequently compared to the Solar Temple. ''[[Le Figaro]]'' declared it the "new OTS", and journalists compared the leader Arnaud Mussy to Jouret and Di Mambro.{{sfn|Palmer|2011|p=163}} Psychologist and cult expert [[Jean-Marie Abgrall]] said during the trial of that group that they were like the Solar Temple, as both groups recorded their meetings and practiced [[Swinging (sexual practice)|swinging]].{{sfn|Palmer|2011|p=164}} A former member discussed with the news a comparison between Néo-Phare's doctrine and the Solar Temple's concept of going to Sirius, and in one instance, [[TF1]] producers (who wanted the exclusive rights to make a documentary about the case) wanted them to look like the Solar Temple, surprised at their lack of belief similarities, and when they found out they did not have many, they left.{{sfn|Palmer|2011|p=164}} Susan Palmer argued the trial of Mussy may have been an attempt by the French justice system to compensate for the innocent verdict in the Tabachnik trial.{{sfn|Palmer|2011|p=163}} The OTS suicides had shocked the French public,{{sfn|Palmer|2011|p=162}} and due to the failure of the justice system to convict the only person who ever went on trial in the case, there was no "satisfying" conclusion, deeply frustrating the French authorities.{{sfn|Palmer|2011|p=163}}