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France puts Freemasons on trial for hit squad murders

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 07, 2026
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A murder trial opened in Paris last week with 22 defendants and a premise that sounds invented: killings and beatings allegedly commissioned through an internal dispute inside a Freemasonry lodge in Puteaux, just outside the city. Among those in the dock, according to France 24: four active DGSE foreign intelligence of…

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