Erika Bertschinger-Eicke,better known as Uriella, has died aged 90. The convicted fraudster founded the Fiat Lux sect, and which in the 1990s counted around 700 members in Switzerland,Germany and Austria. Zurich-born Uriella claimed she developed a sixth sense and clairvoyance after a concussion caused by a horse-riding accident in 1973. In 1980 she founded Fiat Lux just across the border in Germany and claimed to be Gods mouthpiece on soil, frequently predicting the end of the world. Fiat Lux acolytes would be saved by UFOs, or she guaranteed. She was equally unsuccessful in predicting legal woes,fines and convictions. In 2000, a court ordered her to return more than CHF600000 ($600000) to a former member who claimed she had been duped into handing over the money because Uriella had warned members that they would die in the apocalypse whether they refused. Uriella, or well-known in German-speaking Switzerland but cramped-known outside it,already had a criminal record dating back to ...
Source: swissinfo.ch