In France, it is first of all associations like the ADFI who actively campaigned to denounce the existence of sects, from the 1970s, followed in 1983 by a report to the Prime Minister of deputy Alain Vivien and a first parliamentary committee in 1995, before the government officially committed in 1998 in this fight with the objective of "fighting sects" then , faced with certain criticisms, "to repress sectarian aberrations".