The former candidate for the presidential election and ex-leader within the French Socialist Party, Ségolène Royal estimated, in an intervention, this Monday, November 16, 2020, on CNews, that certain caricatures of the Prophet Mohamed are insulting.
Interviewed on the question of freedom of expression, she notably declared: “We have a French motto: freedom, equality, fraternity. So freedom yes, but freedom is not the right to do anything (…) There are rights and duties. And the duties installed by the Republic is fraternity which rebalances freedom ”.
“Freedom is not the right to say anything, anyhow”
And to add: “What is fraternity?” It is the prohibition to shock, humiliate, insult. It is the consideration of the suffering of others to be able to rectify a certain number of things. And freedom is not the right to say anything, anything.
A debate that naturally slipped to the caricatures of Charlie Hebdo. On this subject, Ségolène Royal added: “I am not for the ban on caricatures but I am not to endorse and say that caricatures are good”.
“I understand that some feel insulted”
“I think some Muhammad caricatures are insulting. All pornographic caricatures, I understand that some feel insulted by this including Muslims who are neither fundamentalist nor radicals, “she added.
