He didn’t give up. Deceived since 2024 by someone pretending to be Pierre Garnier, Lucile, an elderly Belgian, refuses to break up with her boyfriend, convinced that he is really the 2023 Star Academy winner.
According to people close to her, the woman who believes she is maintaining an online relationship with the singer has paid more than 7,000 euros to the fake Pierre Garnier via Paysafecard transfers and tickets.
However, the man who was approached by a group of fans on social networks in February 2024 was warned by those closest to him, but nothing happened. “Just now, he told me that he couldn’t wait until December 2 to leave permanently with Pierre,” Ludovic, a friend of Lucile’s son, told BFMTV.
“He managed to isolate it completely”
The latter is also the only relative who can still talk to him. “He managed to isolate her completely and cut all ties with the rest of the family. The only bond she has left is with me. We talk together every day, but we avoid the topic,” he explained to our colleagues.
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“The fraudster told him not to meet us again, because we didn’t wish him the best,” his daughter told Sud Info last week.
The latter tried to intervene several times to trap the fraudster and prove to him that it was a scam, but in vain. Meeting the fake Pierre Garnier, video call… the individual keeps looking for excuses to escape, such as the presence of paparazzi or his parents who would prevent him from communicating freely, but Lucile is reluctant to face reality.
“He won’t believe us until he’s in front of him”
According to people close to Lucile, the fraudster offered her a life together in December in exchange for a payment of 3,000 euros… To unfreeze her bank account. Faced with an urgent situation, his relatives who were unable to intervene to block the bank transfer decided to appeal directly to the singer.
“We want him to make a small video or write on his network. That way, he will realize that the person who took money from him is not the real Pierre, but he is a fraud,” explained Jason.
A last chance call from a desperate family to a middle aged woman who was struggling to pay her bills, in such a situation. “He always said that he wouldn’t believe us until the real Pierre was in front of him and that he would keep talking to this guy until we proved to him that he was fake,” continued Jason, who has now tried everything for everything.
