“In the family, we knew that Abbé Pierre had problems with his sexuality,” his nephew testifies for the first time

“In the family, we knew that Abbé Pierre had problems with his sexuality”testifies for the first time his nephew, Grenoblois Guy Tuscher at the microphone of France Bleu Isère, Monday October 7. However, he claims that his family was unaware of the sexual assaults denounced by more than twenty women, which he supports: “They need to talk so that a healing process can take place and to put what they experienced with him away from them.”

“My mother told him to undergo psychoanalysis to resolve his problems but he never wanted to,” continues Guy Tuscher, whose mother, Anne-Marie, was the sister of Abbé Pierre. Anne-Marie knew that celibacy “he was unbearable” and his ordination was the source of numerous arguments between his mother and his uncle, says the Grenoblois, still speaking to France Bleu Isère.

Although close to his uncle during his childhood, Guy Tuscher wonders today: “Why did he have this attitude? It remains a mystery (…) Everyone was captivated by the myth of Abbé Pierre. But who was the man behind it? We now discover him .” Despite the “violence” learning of the actions of the founder of Emmaus, he does not deny his uncle: “He remains my uncle (…) Everything he has done cannot be thrown away”but at the microphone of France Bleu Isère, Guy Tuscher talks about “disappointment in relation to man”.