The management of the news channel criticizes the former minister for questioning the killings perpetrated by the Russian army in Ukraine.
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She has become persona non grata. The former Minister of Ecological Transition, Ségolène Royal, is no longer welcome on the sets of the BFMTV channel after having questioned the abuses attributed to Russian soldiers in Ukraine. The decision was announced by the general manager of the channel, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, guest of the program C Médiatique on Sunday September 11 on France 5.
Marc-Olivier Fogiel: “The bond of trust with Ségolène Royal is broken.”@FogielMarcOthe director of BFM TV, is the guest of #CMedia with @melanietaravant this Sunday at 1:30 p.m. on France 5. He returned for the first time to the slippage of Ségolène Royal on @BFMTV pic.twitter.com/p60qR1VUpV
– Cmedia (@cmedia) September 11, 2022
“If there had been the slightest victim, the slightest baby with blood, in the age of cell phones, we would have had them”, had supported Ségolène Royal on September 1 on BFMTV. Invited to come and clarify these remarks, the former candidate (PS) in the 2007 presidential election would have “planted” the channel deplores Marc-Olivier Fogiel. “Between her specific remarks, and the fact that she did not specify them with us as she had promised to do, the fact that she disappeared when she was supposed to come, I believe that the bond of trust is broken” did he declare.
“I have never denied war crimes and I happily apologize to the victims if they thought so”, had assured Ségolène Royal on Twitter, on September 3. Before justifying himself, considering that“there is a form of one-upmanship in the description of the horror, to encourage arms deliveries and to refrain from setting up negotiation and peace processes (…)”.