BRIGITTEGATE
THE ALGERIA CONNECTION
A seemingly innocuous announcement in the Algerian press may hint at the truth
- Algeria was colonised by France from 1830, and became independent again in 1962 after several years of a bloody war for independence.
- Jean-Michel Trogneux was living in Algiers in February 1963, when he turned 18 years old, according to the census declaration of Jean Trogneux in the military records (see the picture on the left).
Military service was at that time compulsory for all male French subjects of age 18. Xavier Poussard’s request to view the full records about Jean-Michel Trogneux’ military service was denied for reasons of medical privacy. - This is only a year after the end of the war for Algerian independence, when obviously French citizens would not leisurely go study in or travel to Algeria, so this fact alone needs an explanation which we don’t have yet (remember that there is almost no public information about Jean-Michel Trogneux).
- It was documented that Louis Auzière, the alleged father of Brigitte Trogneux‘ alleged husband, André Auzière, was a colonial officer who worked for France’s secret service. (Pressibus has reasons to assume that also Jean-Louis Auzière, Louis Auzière’s much younger brother, was involved in the secret service.)
Louis Auzière had held office in Algiers for a few years. - In December 2017, Emmanuel Macron announced his plans to visit Algiers together with Brigitte.
- In the days before the visit, Algerian press reported that the University of Algiers is renovating a wing and some gardens, because Brigitte will visit the place as she has studied there (“elle y a des souvenirs”: literally “she has memories there”). Having memories of a university in a foreign country can logically only mean a person has studied at that university.
- The news was published in the French press, and at that time, nobody questioned anything: it is only in 2021 that the issue of Brigitte Macron’s incongruent past and her identification as Jean-Michel Trogneux will go mainstream.
- There is no mention anywhere known to us that Brigitte Trogneux ever visited, stayed or studied in Algeria.
- In the end, Emmanuel Macron went to Algeria alone in 2017 and limited his visit to a few hours, not visiting the University.
- What is all this? Why is the Algerian press openly linking Brigitte Macron to Algiers, while we only know that Jean-Michel Trogneux, and not Brigitte Trogneux, stayed there for some time?
- Close to the address where Jean-Michel Trogneux was living in Algiers, in the same street, there was a lodgings of a boarding school for boys. A few pictures of the boys (aged 16-18 most probably) staying there in 1961 have emerged, and there are two people who seem to be (both visually and with the Betaface software) two persons linked to the Trogneuxs: Jean-Louis Auzière, and a certain Jean-Marc Uhrweiller, who was the entry point for the Auzières in Truchtersheim and is known to have stayed in Algiers for a few years, until 1961 (last year of high school).
- We know that Jean-Michel Trogneux left the Amiens school La Providence very early, at age 11. But there is no trace of what happened to him after that. No name of a school he went to after that, until he shows up again in Paris, listed as following preparatory courses of the École Spéciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP – Special School for Public Works in Cachan, just south of Paris) at 18.
- It is not unreasonable to assume he might have in fact spent these seven years at the above mentioned boarding school in Algiers, even though we have a mention that he has not gone to school for three years before he enrolled for the preparatory courses of the ESTP.
This might also explain his strange presence there in 1963, just after the war of independence. - It is clear that this lead needs further investigating. What did Jean-Michel Trogneux do in Algiers at only 17/18 years old, who did he meet, what is the link between the Auzières and the Trogneuxs, and what do the Algerian officials know?