New accusations against Abbé Pierre, including rape of a minor, incest and threats, made public

The Emmaus movement made public, Monday January 13, a third report concerning the actions of its founder, Abbé Pierre, who died in 2007. It brings to 33 the number of testimonies collected as part of an internal investigation and a listening device entrusted to an independent organization, the Egaé group. And at 57 the number of victims who could be identified.

Despite their number and scope – they cover a period from the 1950s to the 2000s – these successive testimonies do not allow “absolutely not” to draw up an exhaustive inventory, recalls Egaé, who wrote the report. “The accumulation of facts now known perpetrated by this priest, who was so admired, horrifies”however, reacted in a press release the Conference of Bishops of France, announcing that its president, Mgr Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, archbishop of Reims, will speak in the coming days on the subject.

These revelations mark a new gradation in the actions attributed to Abbé Pierre, Henri Grouès, his real name. The first report, made public on July 17, reported forced kissing and touching of the breasts, including on young women who were minors at the time of the events. That of September 6 mentioned similar facts, and other more serious ones: a woman forced to masturbate the religious man; another, then in great distress, forced on several occasions by Abbé Pierre to perform fellatio on her – rape, in French law. Another woman said that at the age of 8 and 9, she had been touched on the chest by the religious and “ tongue kisses ».

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