Twitter screenshot Ségolène Royal, here on BFMTV, September 1, 2022. Twitter screenshot Ségolène Royal, here on BFMTV, September 1, 2022. WAR IN UKRAINE – Mea culpa from the former socialist presidential candidate. This Saturday, September 3, Ségolène Royal wanted to return to the controversy aroused by her appearance on BFMTV where she notably accused the Ukrainian president of carrying out “propaganda of fear”. The former Minister of Ecology wished to apologize for her remarks to the victims of the war in Ukraine. “I have never denied war crimes and I happily apologize to the victims if they thought so,” she tweeted two days after this controversial sequence. To justify herself, Ségolène Royal wanted to highlight the entire sequence broadcast on BFMTV, and which, according to her, would not have been shared in its entirety during online replays. What she did. “Here is the end of my speech, cut off in replays. To plead for peace is to act for the end of the suffering of the Ukrainian people and of Russian aggression, ”she also wrote in her tweet accompanied by the famous sequence. Here the end of my speech, cut from the reruns. To plead for peace is to act to end suffering… https://t.co/jufifSX6cR — Ségolène Royal (@RoyalSegolene) See the tweet In this excerpt shared by the politician, the latter argues that “the description horrors in the context of war propaganda prevents peace processes” and explains that there is “a form of one-upmanship in the description of the horror” by Ukraine in order to “prompt deliveries of arms and refrain from setting up negotiation and peace processes”. Stand With Ukraine seeks to file a complaint What counterbalance with his statements Thursday on the air of BFMTV. Ségolène Royal had then put forward the idea that the maternity hospital bombed in Mariupol on March 9 had been knowingly “used” by Volodymyr Zelensky to prevent the establishment of a peace process. You cannot view this content because you have refused the cookies associated with content from third parties. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices. “You can imagine that if there was the slightest victim, the slightest baby with blood, in the age of mobile phones we would have had them (the images)…”, then declared the former deputy, immediately provoking a wave of indignation within the political class and several associations linked to Ukraine. As such, the collective Stand With Ukraine announced Friday to the CheckNews service of Liberation its intention to file a complaint against the former minister for her remarks on the war in Ukraine. “It’s unbearable for the victims to hear that, especially from a leading political figure like Ségolène Royal,” said Edward Mayor, co-founder of the collective. “We cannot let that be said, so we will try to move forward quickly with our lawyers, and to collect testimonies from victims and witnesses. See also on The HuffPost: Volodymyr Zelensky calls on French bosses to rebuild Ukraine You cannot view this content because you have refused the cookies associated with third-party content. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices.