Abbé Pierre’s nephew testified for the first time this Monday, October 7 on France Bleu Isère. However, he claims that his family was unaware of the sexual assaults denounced by around twenty women against his uncle.
In an interview with France Bleu Isère this Monday, October 7, the nephew of Abbé Pierre sheds harsh light on the silence around the sexuality of his uncle, a sexuality “problematic” known to everyone in the family. “My mother Anne-Marie, his sister, she had a lot of arguments with him on the subject, raconte Guy Tuscher, 71 years old. She knew very well that celibacy was unbearable for him. In fact, she really resented him when he became a priest because she knew it didn’t fit who he was. […] My mother told him to undergo psychoanalysis to resolve his problems, but he never wanted to.”
“Healing Process”
However, he claims that his family was unaware of the sexual assaults denounced by 24 women against Abbé Pierre, women who “must speak so that a healing process can take place and to put what they experienced with him away from them.” The 71-year-old man, formerly elected to the city of Grenoble, makes this judgment: “In fact, without the MeToo movement, who would have believed them? At the same time, everyone knew that there was a problem, the Church, the State, which did not want to give him the Legion of Honor, and even Emmaüs, which had no interest in it. ‘time as far as this is known.’
On September 16, the president of the Conference of Bishops of France (CEF), Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, confirmed in a column in the Monde that several leaders of the French Catholic Church were aware of these actions. “It is now established that, from 1955-1957, At least some bishops knew that Abbot Pierre had serious behavior towards women. underlines the president of the CEF. According to archives consulted by Release, the Vatican had known since at least 1959 and had tried to prevent the prelate from traveling to Canada after reports from that country’s bishops.
