The organisation is targeting the book “Camino 999”. The author, Catherine Fradier (…), lives in the vicinity of Valence (south of France) and was for a time a police officer. This is her seventh novel.
On May 31, author and publisher were taken to a Parisian court and given a 15-day deadline to find an attorney due to a suite filed on behalf of the personal Prelate Association (also called Prelat[ure] of the [Holy] Cross and Opus Dei).
The plaintiff claims that the novel is “calling into question the honour of the Opus Dei Prelate”: “This novel, which must be presented as completely libellous (…) narrates a police investigation in Lyon where a murder is orchestrated by Opus Dei”.
Another criticism levied at the novel is the “interconnected mix of fiction and reality, truth and falsehood, without giving the reader adequate distance needed to appreciate the related fact and without ever inviting readers to make the difference between fact and fiction”. Indeed, the novel brings up the Matesa Affairs, a Spanish political/financial scandal which, at the time, implicated then French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. Finally, “the title ‘Camino 999’, is clear reference to the works of José -Maria Escriva El Camino [The Way], composed of 999 spiritual maxims.” (source)
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