Claude Alonso, alias the guru "Zeus" sentenced to 18 years in prison for rape and abuse of weakness

The investigators were shocked by "the intensity of the suffering of these women" prisoners of this sect.

This Friday and after a week of trial, Claude Alonso, soon to be 82, was sentenced to 18 years in prison, half of which was security, by the Gironde assizes.

Earlier, the Advocate General had also requested 18 years in prison.

The octogenarian, who appeared in a wheelchair, had been free since 2017, placed under judicial supervision.

His trial, scheduled for last year, was postponed due to health issues.

The man was accused of abuse of weakness on five women and rape on three of them, including his own daughter, for 20 years.

Then in her twenties, she had come to settle alongside her sick father in 2003. Far from being spared, she claims to have been forced into countless sexual relations with her father for more than six years.

In 2013, the report of a victim to Miviludes, the body for the fight against sectarian aberrations attached to the Ministry of the Interior, had led to the indictment of this son of an oyster farmer, who had already been subject of an investigation at the end of the 90s for its activities near Libourne, closed without further action.

In the case judged this week by the Gironde Assize Court, only his daughter and another victim had filed a complaint.

At the head of a small community settled in Gujan-Mestras (Gironde), in the Arcachon basin, Claude Alonso had placed several women under sectarian influence for ten years.

The man dreamed of himself as the master of Olympus, requiring his followers to call him Zeus or bow down at his feet.

Drink a mixture of wine, Lexomil, semen and blood from their period

In a mezzanine of the main house, the accused had recreated a shoddy temple to his glory, with throne, scepter, crystal ball and portraits in his likeness.

Every evening, he preached the divine word between mythology, ufology and other esoteric beliefs.

Before imposing "sex work" on his followers, intended to provide him with a "perfect" orgasm to recharge him with energy and "save humanity".

Fads revealing the influence exerted by this presumed guru on his flock, whom justice suspected of having manipulated to satisfy his sexual urges and, incidentally, strip them of their income.

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To his followers – women with a traumatic past of incest, alcoholism or prostitution – he imposed “work” to be carried out under penalty of punishment… In fact, sexual relations and the quest for the “perfect orgasm” , intended to recharge Zeus with energy to save humanity by avoiding the apocalypse.

To convince his victims, Claude Alonso uses events such as the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull or the Fukushima nuclear accident, proof according to him that they are not invested enough... One of them, a real sexual outlet, is moreover forced to wear skirts to immediately satisfy any impulse of the master of the house.

Horrible detail: to further enslave these women, the guru made them drink a “sacred drink” contained in large jars, a nectar made from red wine, Lexomil… Sperm and menstruation from the women of the community.