Louise Bernard, with Ophelie Artaud
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The former PS candidate for the presidency has been dismissed from the continuous news channel BFMTV. A decision which comes after his controversial remarks on Ukraine, where Ségolène Royal had questioned the veracity of certain war crimes committed by Russia. This Sunday, Marc-Olivier Fogiel detailed this decision on France 5.
Ségolène Royal has been dismissed from the continuous news channel BFMTV. A decision which notably follows his controversial remarks on Ukraine, on September 1st. On the air, the former candidate for the presidency of the Socialist Party had questioned the veracity of certain war crimes alleged against Russia, in particular the bombing of the maternity hospital in Mariupol. “If there had been the slightest victim, the slightest baby with blood, in the age of cell phones, we would have had them,” she said.
“She crashed the date she was supposed to come to”
A controversy ensues, since his words are completely inaccurate: many journalists have rightly documented the bombardment of this maternity hospital. Ségolène Royal then apologizes and admits having made a mistake. This Sunday, in the program “C media” on France 5, the general manager of BFMTV, Marc-Olivier Fogiel revealed that Ségolène Royal would not return to the antenna.
“After that particular outing and the controversy that followed, she was asked to come back on set to explain herself and eventually she did on a competing channel, LCI, which is not the problem. problem comes from the fact that she crashed the meeting she was supposed to come in. The bond of trust with Ségolène Royal is broken, between her particular remarks and the fact that she had committed to come when she was not didn’t come,” he announced.