Editing Raël (section)

===Appearances in court===
In 1991, Raël sued French journalist Jean-Yves Cashga for defamation; Raël lost and was ordered to pay court costs. The judgment remains uncollected. Amid growing legal problems in France, Raël emigrated to Canada.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}

On two separate court dates of 2 September 1994 at the High Courts of Paris and 1 October 1996 at the [[Appeal Court of Paris]], journalists [[Jacques Cotta]] and Pascal Martin of [[Groupe Flammarion|Flammarion]] Publishing were found guilty of attributing racist statements and distorted quotations to Raël in their book ''Dans le secret des sectes''. They were fined 10,000FF in damages and 13,000FF in proceedings costs, ordered to insert stickers mentioning the sentence on copies not yet distributed and to suppress of the passage in the next editions, and told that they would be fined 100FF for each non-conforming copy.<ref name="The Raëlian Movement"/>

On 26 January 1994, in emergency proceedings by the Appeal Court of Reims, Myriam Assan was accused of defamation for claiming in her book that "Raël was often sentenced for corruption of minors". Assan was given a provisional sentence of 10,000FF in damages and ordered to withdraw the book. She was sentenced to pay a penalty of 300FF per infringement and 5,000FF in proceedings costs and to publish the judgment in ''Le Monde'' and ''Le Figaro''.<ref name="The Raëlian Movement">[http://www.hrwf.net/religiousfreedom/profiles/ext/raelianenglish.pdf The Raëlian Movement] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011453/http://www.hrwf.net/religiousfreedom/profiles/ext/raelianenglish.pdf |date=27 September 2007 }}, ''Human Rights Without Frontiers''. Retrieved 2 December 2006.</ref>

On 13 December 1994, Gérard Chol, director of ''Le Maine Libre'', was declared guilty by the High Court of Le Mans for public defamation for claiming that the Raël's movement was laundering money coming from drug trafficking, prostitution, arms dealing, and the sale of pornographic videotapes. Chol was ordered to pay 1FF in damages and 3,000FF in proceedings costs and to publish the penal judgment in ''Le Maine Libre''.<ref name="The Raëlian Movement"/>

In 2003, Vorilhon sued [[Ottawa]] columnist Denis Gratton and ''[[Le Droit]]'' newspaper for $85,000 in [[defamation]] damages over a 23 January 2003 column; Raël lost and was ordered to pay court costs by Quebec Superior Court on 21 June 2006.<ref>Block, Irwin, [http://canada.com/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=3367c989-4025-499f-b03b-fe266f81b526 Welcome to real world, judge tells head Raëlian] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208131156/http://canada.com/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=3367c989-4025-499f-b03b-fe266f81b526 |date=8 December 2007 }}, ''[[Montreal Gazette]]''. 3 July 2006. Retrieved on 5 July 2006.</ref>