• Welcome
• Introduction
• A huge political affair
• The research
  and the persons behind it
• The main characters
• The Algeria connection
• The 1977 interview with “Véronique”
• Brigitte the teacher
• The pictures
• The facial recognition
• Brigitte Macron as a woman
• The pedophiles around the Macrons
• Other noteworthy facts
• The court cases
• Update tracker

One of the big issues in the Brigittegate affair is the mysterious past of her “brother” who was not supposed to be known to anybody, and was remarkably curated out of all official biographies. Until he was casually mentioned as a member of the family in Sylvie Bommel‘s 2019 book.
It is clear from the difficulty Xavier Poussard had to get pictures of his schooldays, that certain people and institutions want to keep a close lid on the youth and past of both Jean-Michel and Brigitte Trogneux.
But little by little, information about the leading characters in this drama is coming to light.

In his book Becoming Brigitte, Xavier Poussard had already revealed that he couldn’t get any clarity on where exactly Jean-Michel had gone to school in his teens, as he disappeared from the records already in primary school. He figured that since military service was compulsory in France back in the 1960s, there should be records about Jean-Michel that he could obtain and thus obtain more information about Jean-Michel’s youth.
Xavier did indeed find the intriguing Algeria info and the information that Jean-Michel was supposedly preparing an engineering study, but the military records themselves were withheld with the excuse that revealing them would violate the right to the privacy of medical information.

Early on in his research, Xavier had stumbled upon an online article in the Die Rheinpfalz from 2019, in which a local resident reveals that Jean-Michel Trogneux, allegedly Brigitte Macron’s brother, had been stationed as a French army officer in Speyer, a little town in West Germany, not too far from the border with the French Alsace region. He played hockey in the local team in competition, and this former team-mate reminisces about his former friend who he had visited in Amiens.
Apart from an official confirmation of the hockey club that indeed, Jean-Michel Trogneux had been playing for their team in 1967-68, Xavier was not able to get any other information or documentation about Jean-Michel’s time in Speyer.

Just before Christmas 2025, Amandine Roy, who had then just obtained an official registration as a journalist, revealed in an video that she has obtained several documents leaked to her from a French military pension fund’s records. The documents show that

• Jean-Michel Trogneux did his military service from June 21, 1965 until October 20, 1966 (the compulsory 16 months)
• he was immediately raised to the rank of master corporal on the next day, October 21, 1966
• and was raised to the rank of sergeant just over two months later, on January 1, 1967
• he stayed listed as an employee of the army until June 20, 1970, with the rank of sergeant
• he did his compulsory service in France, but was immediately after that stationed in Germany, and was stationed there until the end of his employment
• he took leave without payment for the last three months of his employment, being from March 21, 1970 until June 20, 1970

Xavier had assumed that Jean-Michel would be living in France in 1968, as there is a voter registration listing him as living in Amiens in that year.
However, it seems clear now that he must have received leave to be able to go vote in Amiens, while being stationed as a sergeant in Speyer.

It is immediately striking that it would seem that Jean-Michel was promoted to higher ranks without any normal process: in one day a master corporal, skipping the rank of corporal, and then just a few months later being lifted into sergeanthood. What justified such treatment for this boy whose past we’re not allowed to know?
Pressibus strongly assumes that Jean-Michel was then already working for the French secret service, and that this explains the preferential treatment of private Trogneux.

There remains the issue of Brigitte Macron’s claim that she was in the US during the 1969 alleged moonlanding. Candace Owens has used that factoid to investigate a possible link of Jean-Michel Trogneux with the Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971, where an unknown person nicknamed “Sergeant” looks quite a lot like the picture of Jean-Michel at 18, and Amandine thinks that his time in the military might tie up with stays in the US.