Abbé Pierre: 30 years ago, a woman revealed chilling details that were not taken seriously…

It was in 2007 that Abbé Pierre took his final bow. It was not until 2024 that his name found itself at the heart of a very dark affair. The emblematic co-founder of the Emmaüs association, a man of the church, saw his legacy go up in smoke in recent days, while several testimonies denounce his behavior. In total, There are no fewer than 24 people who accuse him of sexual assault.. While this affair came as a shock to most people, 30 years ago a woman revealed some very telling information about herself on TV.

In fact, it is in a paper of Franceinfo that we discover that according to the RTS Investigation Unit, Abbé Pierre also frequented the brothels of Geneva. An accusation already made more than 30 years ago, the article specifies. It was in reality on May 15, 1990 on TF1, in the program Heavens my Tuesday! in front of Christophe Dechavanne, that a well-known defender of sex workers in Geneva, a prostitute herself, Grisélidis Real, drops a bombshell.The landlady had told us: come and look through the keyhole of the bathroom, there is someone waiting his turn. He was an extraordinary person, who did a lot of good for humanity. It was Abbé Pierre and I saw him“, she confided that evening in front of millions of viewers.”I never talked about it, but today I can no longer keep quiet.” she added.

Abbé Pierre, a guest at a hotel in a “hot” corner of Geneva

And yet, in this cult show where the raw testimonies followed one after the other, no one will give any credit to the confidences of Grisélidis Real. It was only years later that this testimony strangely echoed the terrible revelations about Abbé Pierre. The RTS, which exhumed this testimony after the revelations about the sexual violence committed by the latter, nevertheless specifies that in Geneva, the founder of Emmaüs stayed regularly in a hotel near the Pâquis districtconsidered a corner”hot” of the city.

As a reminder, according to the people who accuse the churchman, The events are said to have taken place between the 1950s and the 2000s.One woman in particular claims to have suffered “forced kisses” And “contacts” unsolicited when she was 8 to 9 years old, between 1974 and 1975 in Île-de-France.