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Investigators had been trying for months to reconstruct what was happening behind the walls of the residential community in Val di Susa, where yoga, meditation and self-defense courses were offered as a cover for the sect's activities.
Behind the yoga, meditation and self-defense courses there was a sect. Where the "adepts" became slaves and suffered physical, psychological and sexual violence: this was discovered by the Carabinieri of the Turin Investigation Unit, who found the sect in the residential community managed by a 59-year-old man in Val di Susa. Who, at dawn today, ended up in handcuffs on charges of enslavement, family abuse, aggravated sexual violence and aggravated fraud against the State.
Investigators had been trying to reconstruct what was happening behind the walls of that community for months. From there the "Asmodeus" operation began, named after a powerful demon close to Satan: in Jewish and Christian tradition, he is considered "the lord of greed, anger and revenge". A name and a role that the police have also chosen to associate with the arrested fifty-nine year old.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Further arrests and investigations will be carried out to identify any accomplices in the sect.
Likely · Within weeks
Victims will receive psychological and legal support to deal with the trauma they have suffered.
Very likely · Within months

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