Co-founder of Emmaüs. Abbé Pierre was mainly known during his lifetime for his fight for housing for all. Died in 2007, the man of the church was then one of the favorite personalities of the French. However, his public image was forever tarnished. Following recent accusations of sexual assault and harassment made against him.
Indeed, no less than seven women pointed out the inappropriate behavior of Abbé Pierre towards them in an Emmaüs report published in July 2024. Following these first revelations, the testimonies against the man of the church grew. are multiplied. In total, 24 women reported sexual assault. Some of whom were still minors when they crossed paths with the co-founder of Emmaüs.
A letter dating from 1932 was unearthed by the newspaper Le Monde
“Abbé Pierre is behind his desk, he says to me: 'Here, come and sit there', he shows me his knee. I have no apprehension, for me, he's a little grandpa, so I Let's go very quickly, he says to me: 'I'm sure your panties match your dress.' He passes his hand between my thighs, and he presses very hard on my private partsand I feel his penis erect”had first revealed one of these women on the microphone of the show C à vous on France 5.
“He approaches me, he presses my chest and says: 'Pouet pouet! So, is it growing?'. He takes me by the jaw, he sticks out his tongue, he puts it in my mouth. J 'try to struggle, I take his hands away, and then he stops, and he says to me 'Okay, go sit over there'”she also added. However, this affair has just taken a new turn. In fact, the newspaper
The World unearthed a letter on Friday December 13, 2024.
Abbé Pierre was allegedly the victim of abuse during his childhood in Lyon
Its content could precisely shed light on the problematic actions of Abbé Pierre. In this famous letter, dating from 1932, Henri Grouès, his real name, addresses his master of novices, Louis-Antoine de Clermont-Ferrand, just after entering the Capuchins. He then revealed to her that he had been abused for two months, at the age of seven, when he was a boarder at Notre-Dame des Minimes college, in Lyon.
“Big bad guys are coming after me. For two months, at gunpoint, I became their game.”he wrote in this letter. He then indicates that he fled the college to return home. “When, afterwards, I go back to the Minimes, the adults have forgotten me“, he also specified. His attackers would then have been “dismissed with great scandal” after being caught with another victim.
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