A number of women have made allegations of sexual abuse against French Catholic priest Abbé Pierre who died in 2007, the Emmaus movement founded by him announced in Paris on Wednesday. An investigation had been launched after evidence of abuse of a woman came to light last year, the foundation said. “In the course of this investigation, evidence from seven women was collected who reported behaviour that could point to sexual assault or sexual harassment by Abbé Pierre between the end of the 1970s and 2005,” it said. One of the women had been a minor at the time of the first alleged assaults, w…