"The former presidential finalist quietly relays the language of Moscow by casting doubt on the crimes committed in Ukraine
", inaugurates Patrick Cohen in his editorial for Friday, September 2 on the set of "C à vous".
Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine's columnist is referring here to Ségolène Royal's speech delivered the day before on BFMTV.
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Thursday, September 1, facing journalists Olivier Truchot and Alain Marschall, the politician had denounced
"war propaganda by fear"
led by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but also challenged the reality of
"bombed maternity"
of Mariupol.
After a follow-up from one of the presenters, Ségolène Royal also questioned the Boutcha massacre and
“the stories of the rapes of children under the eyes of their parents”
.
According to her, the sole purpose of this testimony being intended to
“interrupt the peace process”.
“What Ségolène Royal says is an insult first to the victims and then to the journalists”
Patrick Cohen comments on Ségolène Royal's remarks
After the rebroadcast of these remarks for a setting in context, Patrick Cohen decides to comment on this speech which he considers
"frightening and frightening".
"Let us specify, if need be, that the bombardment of the Mariupol maternity ward did indeed take place"
, begins the columnist, not without a touch of irony, before affirming that this attack had been
"captured by two journalists from the Associated Press and whose photos have gone around the world
.
These images were then put to the service of words when the journalist reported
"injured pregnant women and one, filmed on a stretcher and died in this chaos".
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"What Ségolène Royal says is an insult first to the victims and then to the journalists, image reporters, photographers who risk their lives to report these tragedies"
, he points out.
But Patrick Cohen is sorry to have perceived at the heart of this scandal,
“a number of messages of support or approval”
to the one he pinpoints.
“It is well worth having closed Sputnik and Russia Today (Russian news channels editor’s note), if it is to let Madame Royal delirious”
, concludes the editorialist.