There could well be new tears flowing in the Doubs. The Besançon criminal court will in fact set this Friday the date of the trial for slanderous denunciation of Jonathann Daval, who is serving a twenty-five year prison sentence for the murder of his wife Alexia in 2017, during a summons hearing. directly, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
This consignment hearing marks a new legal aspect in the highly publicized “Daval affair”. And if he is not present on Friday, Jonathann Daval should be “very probably” during the upcoming trial, according to his lawyer Mr. Randall Schwerdorffer, because he is summoned to appear in court by Alexia’s family for “slanderous denunciations “.
The main complainant is Alexia Daval’s brother-in-law, Grégory Gay, who was accused by Jonathann Daval of having murdered Alexia, as part of a family plot, during the investigation in 2018. “What we blame is these six months of lies during which Jonathann Daval accuses Grégory Gay of having killed Alexia with the complicity of his in-laws,” explained the family’s lawyer, Me Jean, in August. -Hubert Portejoie.
“Business victim”?
For Jonathann Daval’s lawyer, on the other hand, “this legal aspect had been evacuated during the investigation (for homicide) when he admitted that he had lied”. The council criticizes a “relentlessness” on the part of the civil parties, “which has the sole aim of obtaining large sums of money, while Madame Fouillot (Alexia’s mother) had said she wanted to turn the page on the “Daval affair following the conviction” of his former son-in-law. “It’s “victim business”. Alexia is becoming something lucrative, I find that quite unhealthy,” says Me Schwerdorffer.
If he is found guilty of this new charge, the murderer of Alexia Daval faces five years in prison, but his sentence will be confused with his conviction for murder. The in-laws, who are acting as civil parties, are also claiming 60,000 euros in damages, including 30,000 euros for their brother-in-law, 10,000 euros for Alexia’s sister and 10,000 euros for each of the parents.