Review the Thread
Excellent advice Graybeard and my addition to this advice is to review the thread very carefully. Even after careful searches of "fortes turbulences," I missed that my question had been asked and answered. I had a lingering concern in my lurking mind regarding the purported report by the crew of strong turbulence (not mentioned in the BEA report) and that the auto thrust was disengaged. After Takata's response, I went back and indeed I had assumed the crew report was from an original source---it was a media quote allegedly made by a BEA official.