The wandering journey continues: Dozens of pure-hearted cultists arrived about a month ago in eastern Sarajevo – the largest city in the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina in southern Europe, bordering Croatia and Montenegro. The locals who heard about the cult members, came to the compound where they are located and tried to talk to them. The local mayor says today (Monday) to Shabbat Square, “we have nothing against them.”
As you may recall, the cult members arrived at the site last week, and it is speculated that the cult members received a ninety-day residence permit in the country from a local Interior Ministry. After that, according to local law, they will have to leave or seek additional asylum in the place.
In the documentation obtained by Shabbat Square, local young people in Sarajevo are seen arriving at the place where the cult members are staying – last Saturday night and talking to them.
The young people in Sarajevo to the members of the sect: “Can we talk? We are here, because there are a lot of people and also the media, who think you are bad and we do not think so, so we are here if you need help. We are local here and we want to help you in any way we can, because a lot of people think you are bad, “But we do not think so, we are here to help you. Do you need anything?”
Pure Heart Members: “Okay, thanks, but now it’s Saturday night.”
The young people in Sarajevo to the members of the sect: “Can you give me your number?”.
Pure Heart Members: “Do you want to come tomorrow night? I want to give you snacks, it’s a pleasure for us to give you things.”
The young people in Sarajevo to the members of the sect: “Everything you need we will reach tomorrow.”
Pure Heart Members: “tomorrow night”.
The young people in Sarajevo to the members of the sect: “Do you know how long you stay here?”.
Pure heart members“We’ve been here three or four weeks. I do not know, it’s a difficult time, I do not know what we will do because we look different, tell your friends we are good people.”
At the same time, in a conversation we had today with the mayor of Sarajevo, he explained to Shabbat Square: “According to my information, they have come on a tourist visit to the hospital and are allowed to stay until about mid-February.”
“We as a local community have nothing against anyone, against any religion, nation, skin color, far from anyone who would think such a thing. Thanks to their dress, behavior, group members are different in relation to the environment they live in today and the nearby population reacted in panic.”
According to the mayor, the locals reacted this way, because “they received various news about the lifestyle of this group, religious propaganda, various lawsuits, accusations and everything that can be read from newspaper articles from the countries where the community lives. As a municipality, we have no authority to decide whether to stay in hospital . The BiH competent authorities will decide if they apply for asylum. We as a local community need to be aware of the diversity and work to raise the awareness of our residents. “
As reported yesterday in Shabbat Square, residents described the group renting two houses in the neighborhood. “They look strange,” they argued. “Wear special clothes and behave strangely. Pray all day and stare at people passing by the house.”
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They further described that the exceptional guests led them to conduct a light online inquiry, which revealed that the guests are among members of a pure-hearted cult. “We found out that this is some kind of extremist group. Apparently, they do not treat children so well,” they said. “They did nothing wrong during their stay here, but people are just worried. The government agency searched them and they did not find a criminal record on Interpol or similar databases.”
Sect members have been traveling around the world for years. Some have recently moved to Kurdistan after staying in Guatemala. They even recently applied to Iranian authorities for immigration to the country, but for a time they did not respond.
In Pure Heart they tried to keep the attempts to move to Kurdistan under the radar, but the attempt was unsuccessful. When they tried to leave Guatemala the story was revealed and the crossing went wrong. According to the cult members, the disruption was done “because of Israeli and American intervention.”
Several months ago they raised with a pure heart various possibilities of migration to Syria, Lebanon or various Arab countries, where they would receive them. It now turns out that forty members of the sect came, as mentioned, to Sarajevo.