Editing Luc Jouret (section)

== Mass suicide ==
{{Main|1994 Solar Temple massacres}}
Di Mambro wrote four letters, known as ''The Testament'', which contained messages of the order's beliefs.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|pp=218, 231}}{{sfn|Palmer|1996|p=303}} In these letters, the OTS termed the acts a "transit", which they described as "in no way a suicide in the human sense of the term".{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=117}} They declared that, upon death, they would acquire "solar bodies" on the star [[Sirius]] (though members also gave [[Jupiter]] or [[Venus]] as an alternative destination).{{sfn|Wessinger|2000|p=219}}{{sfn|Palmer|1996|p=303}}  The letters maintain a persecuted rhetoric,{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=144}} largely devoted to complaining about the treatment faced by Vinet and Jouret in Canada.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=231}} In one letter, they harshly criticize the allegations the OTS had received in several countries as "deceitful", but especially complain about the [[Sûreté du Québec|SQ]] and the Q-37 investigation.{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=144}}{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=231}} 

On 30 September, Di Mambro had a meal with some followers near [[Montreux]] in Switzerland; according to an attendee (Vuarnet) Di Mambro had asked him to meet them, including Jouret and Pilet. They were joined shortly after by Daniel Jaton, who went off to speak with Jouret.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|pp=217–218}}{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=213}} The next day, Jouret was in Salvan, where records and eyewitness testimony place him on the phone, and was seen late in the day at a restaurant with others.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=213}}{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=218}} During the night from 2 to 3 October 1994, 23 died in Cheiry, shot to death.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=230}}{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=214}}{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=146}} The ones who had killed the others in Cheiry were Joël Egger and Jouret, though it is possible they were not the only ones.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|2000|p=214}}{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=220}} Following the deaths in Cheiry, Jouret was recorded as calling Di Mambro, possibly to inform him that it had been a success, and shortly after so did Egger.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=220}} At about 6 a.m. Jouret left Cheiry for Salvan.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=221}} Pertué had been invited to Cheiry; several of the dead in Cheiry had been killed as "traitors" to the movement. Hall and Schuyler noted she may have been killed for more "personal" reasons; she was killed with two bullets to the head.{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=146}}{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=293}}

In a final, fifth note, Jouret was blamed for the group's actions in Cheiry. A note was found in Di Mambro's chalet, which read:{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=146}}

{{Blockquote|Following the tragic Cheiry Transit, we wish to make it clear, on behalf of the Rosy Cross, that we deplore and totally disassociate ourselves from the barbaric, incompetent and aberrant behavior of Doctor Luc Jouret. Taking the decision to act on his own authority, against all our rules, he has transgressed our code of honor and is the cause of a veritable carnage that should have been a Transit carried out in Honor, Peace and Light. His departure does not correspond to the Ethics we represent and defend to posterity.}}

25 were found dead in Granges-sur-Salvan.{{sfn|Clusel|Palmer|2020|p=230}} Most of the bodies in Salvan were burned beyond recognition,{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=116}} and Jouret and Di Mambro's bodies had to be identified via [[Forensic dentistry|dental records]].{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=23}} The dead at Salvan had been injected with poison.{{sfn|Michaud|1996|p=10}} According to the investigative report, it is likely that the fatal injections at Salvan were done by Line Lheureux.{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|pp=223–224}} According to the coroner report, Jouret died of the drugs he ingested prior to the fire. His body was found in the second chalet in Salvan, having fallen on a beam from the intermediate floor.{{sfn|Michaud|1996|p=27}}

Following the deaths, it was not immediately realized that Jouret was among the dead.{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=118}} The investigating judge issued a warrant for his arrest, but within a week it was found that he, along with all the main suspects in the deaths, were dead.{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=118}} Mostly in an attempt to discourage devoted former members from visiting their graves, the location of the graves of Jouret and Di Mambro were not officially released, with authorities describing it as "top secret". As neither of their families came to claim their bodies, they were both cremated following their autopsies. According to journalist [[Arnaud Bédat]], who investigated the case, as the canton where the death occurred has jurisdiction in Switzerland, they were both buried secretly under an unmarked slab in a cemetery in [[Sion, Switzerland]].{{sfn|Bédat|Bouleau|Nicolas|1997|p=273}}

The Solar Temple disbanded after Di Mambro and Jouret's deaths, though in 1995 another group of 16 OTS members [[1995 Vercors massacre|committed suicide]] and in [[1997 Saint-Casimir mass suicide|1997 five more followed]], following the first group.{{sfn|Lewis|2004|p=296}}