It is difficult to imagine a figure as emblematic as Abbé Pierre having committed sexual assault and violence against several women. However, this is indeed the case if we are to believe the numerous testimonies of alleged victims. And for the nephew of the founder of Emmaüs, in the family, everyone knew…
Of Abbot Pierre, we would have liked to remember only his hands outstretched towards others, all his actions undertaken to help people in need, the homeless and the poorest. This is exactly what was happening until this sad day in July 2024 when the testimonies of several women, revealing all having been victims of sexual assault by himwere revealed.
If in the report published on July 17, seven women found the courage to testify and reveal what Abbé Pierre did to them, sometimes when they were minors, the number is now only increasing. A much darker profile thus emerges of Henri Grouès (real name of Abbé Pierre) who, who died in 2007, will never be able to answer for his actions.
However, some of the people who worked with him have already spoken out. And among them, members of his family. If just a few days after the public confessions of Abbé Pierre’s potential victims, his nephew Alain Grouès had expressed a straightforward reaction, it is now up to another member of the family to break the silence .
Our uncle’s sexuality was problematic
This time it is not Alain but Guy Tuscher who spoke from the media France bleu Isère (reported by The Parisian). As the nephew of Abbot Pierre, the latter made astonishing revelations, indicating that “in the family, we all knew that our uncle’s sexuality was problematic.“However, despite this unfortunate observation, he affirms that”We did not know about the sexual assaults, as they were described.“Like his cousin, Guy Tuscher shares the pain of all these women who suffered so much because of his uncle:”It’s a pain, he remains my uncle. But at the same time, I tell myself that the Me Too movement is great. This allows a 60-year omerta to disappear.”
He nevertheless tries to understand what could have gone through the mind of someone he did not suspect of such behavior: “It remains a mystery. Perhaps he said to himself: I have done so much good that, in the end, I will still go to heaven. I don’t know. […] Everyone was captivated by the myth of Abbé Pierre. And who was the man behind it? Well, man, we find out now.” A personality that no one would have wanted to know…
Original article on Purepeople
