On Thursday, September 1, Ségolène Royal had caused an uproar on BFMTV by declaring live that “if there had been the slightest victim or the slightest baby with blood, in the age of mobile phones, we would have had them”, in reference to the war crimes perpetrated in Ukraine by the Russian army: “Everyone knows that there is war propaganda through fear. When Zelensky says: ‘our soldiers are being tortured’, it remobilizes troops, it prevents peace processes, and I think that there have been enough victims to ban and prevent, under the aegis of the United Nations and journalists’ associations, from conveying the horrors that make Zelensky’s propaganda.”
Two days later, the channel’s new columnist apologized: “I have never denied war crimes and I happily apologize to the victims if they thought so,” she wrote on Twitter .
A forgiveness that will not have been enough is obviously enough. Present at “C Médiatique” on France 5, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, general manager of the news channel, announced that they had had to separate from the former candidate for the French presidency. The latter had been invited to come back to explain herself on the set of BFMTV but she would have refused: “She did it on a competing channel. She planted the appointment to which she was supposed to come”, he explains. . “There, we decided that the bond of trust with Ségolène Royal was broken. It’s not the subject itself, it’s the fact that nothing is wrong with this story,” he said.