Brigitte Macron, June 5 in Paris. Romuald Meigneux / Sipa
“We are relaxed!” »» This Thursday, July 10, at the Paris court, lawyer Maud Marian cannot retain an explosion of joy. The Paris Court of Appeal has just announced that its client Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey (represented by his lawyer François Danglehant) are released in the defamation procedure launched against them by Brigitte Macron. The two women, who were not present during the announcement of the judgment, were continued for defamation in early January 2022, after having broadcast a video of more than four hours in which Natacha Rey, completely unknown at the time, explained to being an independent journalist, having investigated and discovered that Brigitte Macron was a man, more precisely his brother Jean-Michel Trogneux.
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The video, broadcast on the small YouTube channel of the Loyer Amandine Roy, had made a huge buzz on the internet, forcing the First Lady to come to deny on the set of TF1, and to file a complaint. The two women, condemned at first instance in 2024, Were were therefore released on appeal this July 10, 2025, the Court believing that the 18 passages of the video retained by the lawyers of Brigitte Macron do not constitute a defamation, or are in good faith.
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This court decision is very bad news for Brigitte Macron, who never ceases to try to get out of a story that continues to bounce and gain momentum, including internationally, especially because of a book, “Becoming Brigitte”, writes by a far -right journalist, Xavier Poussard, and videos of the American influencer Trumpist Owen. Jean Ennochi, Brigitte Macron’s lawyer, said that she was going to appeal to cassation. Note that Brigitte Macron also launched a second procedure for “Cyberharity” Against a dozen people, including Aurélien Poirson Atlan, who held the very active counts « Zoe Sagan » On Twitter (now x).
