Omerta, religious dogma intrusive and punitive expeditions: the case has everything a thriller drawing on the usual fantasy inspired from outside the Amish, these American Protestants who reject the modern world. A year after the events of which they are accused, sixteen members of a small Amish community in Ohio are judged Monday, August 27 by the federal courts to answer for their involvement in a series of attacks against members of their own village . At the center of this conflict lies the intra authoritarian figure of Sam Mullet, the charismatic leader suspected to be the sponsor of these attacks, in order to punish those who challenge his authority.
The story began nearly a year ago, in a corner of the American campaign, some ten kilometers from the nearest village, Bergholz, Ohio. Three weeks, the Amish community, which has grown in this valley for fifteen years, is the scene of strange attacks: people equipped with scissors and electric razors creep into houses at night to cut beards and hair. Acts extremely humiliating for Amish, whose dogma wants after the marriage the wives let their hair grow and the spouses cease to shave. Outrage additional attackers do not hesitate to take pictures of their victims and humiliated. Fear settled in the village, families lock themselves in their homes and arm their guns.
THE LAW OF SILENCE
At a preliminary hearing, the prosecutor revealed that the first attack took place on the night of September 6, 2011, to a couple who had dared to challenge the authority of Sam Mullet. The attackers, which include six children, came to the door and ring have shorn in retaliation. A few days later, one of the accused called his brother to come and take tea with him, poured laxative into his cup before he cut his beard and hair. From November 22, the FBI published a report identifying five attacks, all organized on the same procedure.
Among the victims, few want to complain, respecting the Amish doctrine that disputes should be settled within the community, outside of federal laws. But some also go and decide to go to the local Sheriff, Fred Abdalla, so that attacks do not affect other members of the community. Among them, the couple formed by Ariane and Myron Miller, who is also the issue releasing the grip of the community of Sam Mullet. "Many lives are wasted here. There are many people who are abused and who undergo brainwashing," said Mrs. Miller to CNN in November 2011.
THE "CLAN Bergholz"
Sat Mullet settled in Jefferson County in 1995, a few kilometers from the center of Bergholz. This 66 year old is quickly becoming the spiritual leader of a small community built around homes formed by seventeen children: "Bergholz clan". If he refuses the label "cult", yet he has all the traits of the guru. In case of disagreement, he does not hesitate to excommunicate his followers or to banish them from the community. He gives advice to married couples about their sexuality and enjoys sex with some married women in order to "purify the devil in them."
In 2005, he decided to excommunicate several families at once, a decision that there is no consensus among the bishops. Not surprisingly, the first people affected by the punitive part of his detractors. Sat Mullet never directly attacked his opponents, but according to the prosecutors of the case, he had ordered all attacks and concealed evidence, including a bag filled with shorn hair and a woman's bonnet torn. Mullet Sat always denied having ordered the attack, adding he never stopped anyone from doing so. According to him, the attacks are a response to the criticisms that have been made, from the other Amish bishops, on the application considered too strict religion.
SHERIFF AND THE GURU
Since the arrival of Sam Mullet, Fred Abdalla was witness to the influence exerted by "Bishop Mullet" on its community of 120 souls. The sheriff tells the story of the man who has confessed to having been imprisoned for fifteen days in a house in the heart of winter, because of a theological disagreement. The man did not file a complaint against Sam Mullet because "he was convinced that Mullet had rendered service", says Fred Abdalla. "It's as if I was hitting with a board by saying that this is good for you ... and give your consent. That's how Mullet is despotic," he says to Chris Welch CNN.
When the federal courts began to take an interest in the case, the sheriff did not hesitate to denounce the climate of terror that reigned in the village and throughout Ohio, with nearly 60,000 Amish , is the second largest Amish population in the United States, after the state of Pennsylvania. "A throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, members of the Amish community are concerned about this story. We received hundreds and hundreds of calls from people living in fear. They buy tear gas, some with guns sit in the evening behind the locked door, all because of Sam Mullet, "said Fred Abdalla day where seven attackers were arrested by federal authorities on 23 November 2011.
"I DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO PUNISH THE MEMBERS OF MY CHURCH?"
Today found with fifteen other people - nine men and six women - Sam Mullet has always challenged the legitimacy of the federal courts to rule on this case, he considers internal to the Church. "You have laws to regulate public roads. If someone disobeys you punish. But I have no right to punish members of my church?", He argued with the Associated Press in October 2011. "I'm supposed to let me down? If all families acted as they like, what kind of community would we?"
But the methods deployed by "Bishop Mullet" to manage the community are considered by many experts as contrary to the very foundations of religion Amish. Indeed, violence between Amish are "extremely rare," said Donald Kraybill, a professor at the University of Elizabethtown College and an expert on Amish Culture. Similarly, Thomas J. Meyers, professor of sociology at Goshen College in Indiana, insists that "punishment, retaliation and the use of force" are concepts almost unknown to the Amish community.
A dogma against the Amish, Sam Mullet has already announced that he was ready to consider installing electricity in his home so that he could have an electronic bracelet and serve his sentence at home . "The Amish believe that electricity promotes the introduction of modern equipment that can push members of the community not to rely on each other. Amish reject What, are devices that lead to individualization and laziness, not electricity itself, "explained his lawyer Huffington Post. The U.S. Justice Department, meanwhile, announced that he was not in favor of this solution because Sam Mullet was a "risk" too important to the community.
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