“I dissect 30 years of political life”
, explains the politician, ex-MP and ex-minister about her new book
Refuse the cruelty of the world!
The time to love has come
(Editions du Rocher).
It is also on this occasion that Ségolène Royal went, this Tuesday, April 18, on the set of “Touche pas à mon poste”.
In this book, she discusses the consequences of the 2020 confinement in response to the Covid-19 epidemic, her years running for the presidency of the French Republic, but also the brutality inherent in politics.
Among the attacks she has suffered during all these years, the repeated burglaries remain traumatic ordeals.
“Twice I suffered these rampages without theft. Just to scare and probably to discourage me from politics because at that time, in 2008, I was designated as the best placed to win the presidential election.
Some time later, the plan of my home and its accesses will be found in the trunk of Bernard Squarcini, former director of intelligence”
, quotes Cyril Hanouna from the book of the former presidential candidate.
Faced with an indignant presenter, Ségolène Royal goes into detail.
"Politics is hard sometimes"
“They wanted to scare me.
My daughter's little things were lined up on her bed, like that, like the mafia,”
she said, still flabbergasted.
If the facts now go back more than ten years, these intrusions have strongly marked the woman politician.
At the time, in the space of four years, his accommodation in Boulogne-Billancourt had suffered three visits from malicious people.
And the bullying didn't stop there.
“During the campaign all the computers of my entire close team were stolen the same night.
That means that there were spooks who are specialists in intrusions without breaking and entering and who use mafia methods, intimidation.
It's hard sometimes politics, ”
she admits that she has been part of this world since her beginnings in 1978 when she was still only a student at Sciences Po.
At the time of the facts, the mother of four children living alone – she had separated from François Hollande in 2007 on the evening of the second round of the legislative elections – does not let anything show.
And for good reason.
"I didn't say anything because I said to myself
'I'm going to arouse crazy reactions who will say they can go back to Ségolène Royal'.
Besides, my address had been put all over the press.
I have to keep quiet in these cases to avoid it.”