Paris, (kna). The French administration's sect commissioner has formally protested at the U.S. Embassy in Paris about a U.S. American administrative report on restrictions on religious freedom in Europe. Religious freedom in France, with the exception of the German occupation, has not been tampered with for more than a century, said Alain Vivien, the President of the French Sect Commission, according to French newspaper reports on Tuesday. The U.S. accusations were said to be unfounded. He said that one of the commission delegates who reviewed religious freedom in April in France was affiliated with the Scientology Organization.

In the report the U.S. administration called upon the governments of Belgium, Germany, France and Belgium to no longer politically or morally hinder "new groups and religious minorities." Just the mere presence of the sect commissions in these countries were said to give the public the impression that new religious categories were engaged in illegal activities. In this way, the report said, intolerance was being promoted.