Editing Luc Jouret (section)

=== Legal issues ===
Members in Martinique were beginning to be frustrated with Jouret, viewing him as a dictator who was controlling and intruded unnecessarily into their private lives.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=183}} In 1990, Michel Branchi, a member of the [[Martinican Communist Party]] and correspondent for the Martinican branch of the [[anti-cult group]] [[Union nationale des associations de défense des familles et de l'individu|ADFI]], who happened to have a relative in the OTS,{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=183}} organized a meeting between the families of members and Jouret in order to "attack" him.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=184}} Questioned by their relatives about, among other things, why couldn't they see their relatives and what the money was used for, Jouret refused to answer and invoked his rank in the group, wishing for respect. A relative of one member insulted him, and Branchi said that if he did not leave Martinique they would take the "necessary measures".{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=184}} At the same time, other Templar movements in Martinique were threatening his livelihood; he returned to Canada.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=184}} This incident deeply affected the group.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=184}} Jouret was terrified, and expressed to a friend that he had no choice but to leave in light of the threats he had received. He asked Giron to add to the group's survival kits [[iodine]], to help them survive a [[nuclear explosion]]. Giron expressed to Jouret that his "trap" was "money and women".{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=184}} Every [[summer solstice]] Jouret sent all the members a message; in the message in 1991, Jouret instead sent an "indecipherable cosmic jumble", invoking a variety of esoteric elements.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=184}} 

In March 1993, two members of the OTS – Jean Pierre Vinet and Hermann Delorme – were arrested for attempting to purchase three semiautomatic guns with silencers, which are illegal in Canada; this came after Jouret had encouraged them to buy the weapons.{{sfn|Introvigne|2006|pp=31–32}}{{sfn|Mayer|1999|pp=179–180}} A warrant for Jouret's arrest was issued, which could not be carried out as he was in Europe, and the Canadian press's attention was drawn to the OTS.{{sfn|Introvigne|2006|p=32}} He was caught on a police wiretap saying:{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=193}}
{{Blockquote|text=When I see the violence unleashed around me, around us. I'm talking about Jo and myself, for example, because we don't accept that we're part of a very specific figure at the end of time. [...] My God, what a circus. It's becoming terrible. We're living a crazy, crazy end... [...] If you only knew what you have to do to keep the machine going, you have no idea. Anyway, in short, we're coming to the end. [...] What a planet, my God, what the hell did we do to land on this shit.}}
Vinet and Delorme appeared in court on the charge of trafficking prohibited weapons on 30 June 1993. Jouret appeared 15 July, on the grounds of arms trafficking and conspiracy. He pleaded guilty, but obtained [[conditional discharge]] at his request, which kept his criminal record clean and allowed him to keep practicing medicine.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|pp=193–194}} The judge believed that the weapons purchases had been made in a "defensive context", and that the individuals involved had already been punished by the media coverage.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=194}} Jouret and the other two men were given only a light and symbolic sentence after the crime: one year of unsupervised probation and a $1000 fine intended to be paid to the [[Red Cross]].{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=194}}{{sfn|Mayer|1999|p=180}}{{sfn|Mayer|2006|p=96}} Jouret was silent during the trial, and immediately returned to Switzerland, having spent less than 24 hours in Quebec.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|pp=193–194}} In the aftermath the media took interest in the group; the Canadian press began to report, using information gained from police [[wiretaps]], conversations between members of the OTS, which they described as a "[[doomsday cult]]".{{sfn|Mayer|2006|p=96}}{{sfn|Mayer|1999|p=180}} 

Following the gun scandal, Jouret became very paranoid and concerned with purported injustice, as well as the legal investigation he faced in several countries.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=195}}{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|pp=228–229}} Delorme never spoke to him again after the incident, but Vinet told him that Jouret was "changed" and that he became a "tired, tired, tired, disappointed, disillusioned person".{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=138}} He began speaking of the "transit" concept previously established by Di Mambro.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|pp=228–229}} His physical condition began to deteriorate, and he did not sleep; instead, he spent the nights reading [[comic books]].{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|pp=194–195}} According to a former member, he constantly repeated that he was "sick of it" and that they had to "stop it".{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=195}} In June 1994, he called his mother and tell her that, if anything happened to him, to not worry, as he had already done a lot in his life. His mother was extremely worried about him due to his obsession with the apocalypse and his pessimistic outlook.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|pp=195–196}} The next month he called a former friend who had recently become slightly distanced from the group; Jouret begged him to meet up. According to this friend, Jouret was anxious and felt threatened, but would not say why.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=195}}