For him, learning all this “was violent”. However Guy Tuscher, nephew of Abbé Pierre accused of sexual violence by 24 women, assures that “in the family, we all knew that our uncle’s sexuality was problematic”. “On the other hand, the sexual assaults as they were described, no, we did not know about them,” he said at the microphone of France Bleu Isère. “It’s a pain, he remains my uncle. But at the same time, I tell myself that the movement Me Too is great. This allows a 60-year omerta to disappear,” he continued.
Guy Tuscher, who says he “supports these women who have told what they suffered,” says he is “disappointed in the man” who was Abbé Pierre, who died in 2007. “Why did Did he take the risk that one day this would become known and destroy all the work he had accomplished humanly and politically? “, he questioned, estimating that “we cannot say that of what [l’Abbé Pierre] has done is to be thrown away.”
“The man, we discover him now”
This nephew, who denounces the “unacceptable” attitude of his uncle, does not understand why Abbot Pierre “had that attitude”. “It remains a mystery. Maybe he said to himself: I have done so much good that in the end, I will still go to heaven. I don’t know. And then always the pretext of saying to oneself: in any case, my celebrity helps me for my humanitarian and political action,” he said. “In fact, everyone was captivated by the myth of Abbé Pierre. And who was the man behind it? Well, the man, we find out now,” continued Guy Tuscher to France Bleu Isère.
The famous Abbé Pierre is accused of sexual violence which took place between the 1950s and 2000 by 24 women, some of whom were minors at the time of the events. Among the reports raised against him: “inappropriate behavior of a personal nature, a sexual proposition, repeated comments with sexual connotations, attempts at unsolicited physical contact, unsolicited contact on the breasts”.
