The former minister had created an uproar after her appearance on a TV set, where she had denounced “war propaganda by fear”.
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L’former socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal said on Twitter on Saturday that she had “never denied war crimes” and apologized “to the victims if they thought so”, after her controversial remarks on the war in Ukraine. Thursday evening, on BFMTV, she had denounced “war propaganda by fear” on the part of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and questioned in particular the reality of “bombed maternity” in the south-east of Ukraine in march. She also questioned the Boutcha massacre or “the story of child rape for seven hours under the eyes of the parents”. “It’s monstrous to go and broadcast things like that only to interrupt the peace process,” she said.
His remarks sparked a lively controversy within the political world. She therefore held on Saturday to highlight the end of her remarks on Thursday, according to her “cut in the reruns”.
Here the end of my speech, cut from the reruns. Advocating for peace is acting to end the suffering of the Ukrainian people and aggression https://t.co/cyNDTx2sFQ have never denied war crimes and I happily apologize to the victims if they thought so pic.twitter.com/TrfqYnekBa
— Segolene Royal (@RoyalSegolene) September 3, 2022
She specified there that “there is a form of one-upmanship in the description of the horror, to encourage the delivery of arms and to refrain from setting up negotiation and peace processes, while the Ukrainian people needs peace […]. The portrayal of horrors as part of war propaganda impedes peace processes”. “To plead for peace is to act for the end of the suffering of the Ukrainian people and of Russian aggression,” she said again on Saturday.
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