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Daval affair: the Canal series relaunches the battle between Jonathann Daval and his ex-in-law (Photo by Jonathann Daval (on the left next to Alexia Daval’s parents during the latter’s funeral on November 8, 2017 before he not be unmasked)
DAVAL – A murderer and a poisoner? Jonathann Daval, in prison for the murder of his wife Alexia, has filed a complaint against his in-laws for defamation, announced his lawyer Me Randall Schwerdorffer, this Monday, February 19. He accuses them of having made false statements in an episode of the Canal + series which focuses on the affair, accusing him of having poisoned his wife.
The convict, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence, particularly targets Isabelle Fouillot, Alexia’s mother, and Stéphanie Gay, her sister for the comments they made in the fourth episode of the series “Alexia our daughter”.
Poison him to “ drive her crazy »
According to the text of the complaint filed by the lawyer with the public prosecutor of Vesoul, the two women present “an unprecedented version of the affair by unequivocally accusing Jonathann Daval of having deliberately poisoned his wife to cause the miscarriage suffered by Alexia Daval”.
They also accuse him of “having poisoned her to “drive her crazy” and cause the discomfort for which the couple had consulted doctors including a neurologist”indicates the text of the complaint
However, these elements on a possible poisoning of Alexia Daval had been dismissed during the trial before the Haute-Saône Assize Court.
“As if his murder conviction wasn’t enough”
“There is clearly a desire to present the Daval affair to the public from an inaccurate angle with a goal which can only be that of harming the complainant, as if his conviction for murder was not enough and that it was necessary publicly and falsely further burden Jonathann Daval and undermine his honor by making him appear to the public as a poisoner in addition to a murderer”continues Me Schwerdorffer.
Jonathann Daval himself must appear on April 10 before the Besançon criminal court for slanderous denunciation against his in-laws. 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. Jonathann Daval finally admitted having lied, six months later.
Jonathann Daval strangled his 29-year-old wife on the night of October 27 to 28, 2017 at their home in Gray-la-Ville (Haute-Saône). The next day, he transported her body to a wood before setting it on fire and raising the alarm, claiming that his wife had not returned from her jogging. Alexia’s body was found two days later.
For three months, Jonathann Daval had shown the face of a grieving widower in the media, before being confused, in the midst of the #MeToo wave.
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