mm43
No. it doesn't. The opposite is true.
Bearfoil;
From BEA update ...
The airplane began to roll to the right and the PF made a left nose-up input. The stall warning sounded twice in a row.
That statement appears to be quite straight forward, and gives a clear impression that at the time of the AP/ATHR disconnect the aircraft was in level flight at FL350.
It tells me that the a/c was descending, and rolling off to the right. The PF tells me that, BEA needn't repeat it. If the a/c was not in s/l, but was being kept trimmed by an a/p that released the controls, this means that the PF couldn't just "sit there", he needed to continue to trim. My assumption would be that if continuous, this turbulence may have ended up being "too much" for the a/p parameters, and its loss might be due to inability to maintain trim. This inability, whether from uas and commanded, or turbulence and self commanded might just be the wheels coming off re: UPSET.