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Jeremiah Duggan was a British student at the Sorbonne who died on 27 March 2003 in Wiesbaden, Germany, while attending a youth cadre school organized by the LaRouche movement, an international network led by the American political activist Lyndon LaRouche.〔Witt, April. ("No Joke" ), ''The Washington Post'', 24 October 2004.〕 The German police said Duggan had committed suicide after witnesses said he ran onto a busy road and was struck by several cars. The circumstances of his death became a matter of public dispute when a British inquest rejected a suicide verdict, after hearing the view of the London Metropolitan Police that the LaRouche movement is a political cult. After Duggan's family commissioned private forensic reports suggesting he may not have been hit by the cars, and that his death may have occurred elsewhere, the High Court in London ordered a second inquest, which opened and adjourned in June 2010.〔For the second inquest, see ("Fresh inquest into student death" ), BBC News, 20 May 2010. *For the first, and that the police said the LaRouche movement was a political cult, see Townsend, Mark. ("The student, the shadowy cult and a mother's fight for justice" ), ''The Observer'', 31 October 2004.〕 A coroner's report released in Britain in 2015 "totally rejected" the suicide hypothesis.〔(Student Jeremiah Duggan's death not suicide, coroner rules ), BBC News, 22 May 2015〕 The German authorities have declined to reopen their investigation. The Wiesbaden prosecutor said in 2004 there was no doubt that as a consequence of his own behaviour and with no-one else involved, Duggan had thrown himself in front of several cars and died on the third attempt.〔Samuels Tim. ("Investigation into British student death stalled" ), BBC News, 24 February 2004.〕 In March 2009 a spokesman stressed again that there was no evidence linking the LaRouche movement to the death.〔 In February 2010 the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany rejected the Duggan family's request for judicial review.〔Würzberg, Ulrike. ("Gericht zieht Schlussstrich: Keine neuen Ermittlungen im Fall Jeremiah Duggan" ), ''Usinger Anzeiger'', 24 February 2010. *For the decision, see ("In dem Verfahren über die Verfassungsbeschwerde" ), ''Bundesverfassungsgericht'' (Federal Constitutional Court of Germany), 4 February 2010, accessed 6 January 2011; (Google translation ).〕 The LaRouche movement has said the controversy surrounding the death was stirred up by LaRouche's political opponents—including former British prime minister Tony Blair and former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney — because of LaRouche's criticism of the 2003 Iraq War and the man-made global warming hypothesis, and that the affair is being used by Neoconservatives to discredit the movement.〔For LaRouche blaming Blair and Cheney, see Samuels, Tim. ("Jeremiah Duggan's death and Lyndon LaRouche" ), BBC News, 12 February 2004, 4:16 mins. *For the claim that it is connected to the Iraq War and global warming, see , LaRouche Political Action Committee, 25 March 2007. *That anti-cult activists are using the affair, see Steinberg, Jeffrey. ("Behind the Kelly/Wilson/Duggan Affair: Anatomy of a Defamation Campaign" ), ''Executive Intelligence Review'', 18 March 2005, pp. 40–42, particularly p. 42.〕 ==Background== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Death of Jeremiah Duggan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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