Brigitte Macron’s great-nephew assaulted after Emmanuel Macron’s interview

Jean-Baptiste Trogneux, the great-nephew of Brigitte Macron, was attacked in Amiens, on the evening of Monday May 15 after the interview with Emmanuel Macron on TF1, learned France Bleu Picardie from the father of the victim. He was knocked to the ground by several people in front of the Jean Trogneux chocolate factory, of which he is one of the managers, and which is well known to the people of Amiens.

“About forty demonstrators were there, after the president’s speech on TF1”tells the father of Jean-Baptiste, Jean-Alexandre Trogneux to France Bleu Picardie. “There are a dozen who threw themselves on him recognizing him. They beat him up, with a lot of blows to the face”he explains.

Eight people arrested

Jean-Baptiste Trogneux “has trauma and needs a brain scanexplains his father. He has bumps all over the place. He ended up curling up and waiting for it to happen.” Four neighbors rescued the victim. “There has been an amalgam since the election of Emmanuel Macron, who wants everyone to believe that the Trogneux company belongs to him, that it is that of his wife Brigittedenounces Jean-Alexandre Trogneux.

“It’s a mix that is completely ridiculous. There is no financial link, on the other hand we harvest hatred, sometimes even devastating since we had several stores that were ransacked. There we came close to disaster.”

Jean-Alexandre Trogneux

at France Bleu Picardie

Eight people were arrested and placed in police custody, according to information from France Bleu Picardie. Jean-Baptiste Trogneux was at the police station on Tuesday morning for the purposes of the investigation.

Brigitte Macron “in total solidarity” with her family

The First Lady reacted at the start of the afternoon in a statement sent to Agence France Presse. Brigitte Macron denounces “the cowardice, stupidity and violence” of the attackers. “I am in total solidarity with my family and in constant contact, since 11 p.m. yesterday, with Jean-Baptiste (my little nephew, victim of the attack) and Jean-Alexandre (my nephew, father of the victim)”, she wrote. The wife of the Head of State adds: “I have repeatedly denounced this violence which can only lead to the worst.”