Ucontroversy, apologies, broken trust and now accusations of censorship. Questioned by many commentators and even targeted by a complaint for his remarks made on the 1is September 2022, Ségolène Royal denounces this Tuesday her sidelining by the news channel. The former presidential candidate of 2007 had denounced live “propaganda of war by fear” on the part of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and questioned the reality of “bombarded motherhood” in the south-east of the Ukraine in March.
After two days of controversy, Ségolène Royal apologized on her Twitter account, broadcasting in passing “the end of her cut word”. “I have never denied war crimes and I happily apologize to victims if they thought so,” she wrote. On France 5, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, general manager of BFMTV, declares having invited the former minister to come and explain herself on set, which the main interested party preferred to do on LCI. “She crashed the meeting she was supposed to come and explain herself to.” There, we decided that the bond of trust with Ségolène Royal was broken. […] It’s not the talk itself. […], it is the fact that nothing is right in this story. »
Royal shouts at censorship
This Tuesday, as spotted by HuffPost, the tone has hardened between the two parties. Ségolène Royal denounces a “weird authoritarianism” defying freedom of expression. “So I am censored from BFMTV for having said forbidden truths and, an even more serious crime, having accepted another TV channel to talk about it”, she wrote on Twitter.
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Marc-Olivier Fogiel’s answer will take only a few minutes: “Too bad it didn’t happen like that… as our discussions attest. “Answer followed by a new invitation to intervene on the channel:” You are not censored. We will continue to invite you. On the other hand, we cease our collaboration since you do not keep your commitments. See you soon on our set as a guest…”