While it was to take place from 16 to 20 November before the Assize Court of Haute-Saône, in Vesoul, the trial of Jonathann Daval, was postponed from November to March due to the epidemic of coronavirus, a- we learned Thursday from his lawyer.
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"We were asked for our agreement before on the date and we accepted given the circumstances, even if that does not suit us," said AFP Randall Schwerdorffer, confirming information from the newspaper Le Parisien . The trial of the computer scientist, who confessed to the murder of his wife Alexia in 2017, will finally take place in March 2021.
Tried for "murder on spouse"
"Finally! It is important that he can give explanations about his story as a couple, at the center of the debates, and about this evening," said Me Randall Schwerdorffer when this date was announced in mid-March, saying " important for an accused to have a due date. "
Jonathann Daval is to be tried for "murder on spouse", facts punishable by life imprisonment. Alexia Daval, a 29-year-old bank employee, was found dead, hidden under branches and partially burned, on October 30, 2017 in Haute-Saône.
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Her husband Jonathann had first pretended to be a grieving husband for three months, without news of his wife jogging, before admitting to having hit and strangled her on the night of October 27 to 28, 2017 at their home of Gray-la-Ville (Haute-Saône), during a violent marital quarrel. Following a reconstruction of the murder carried out on June 17, Jonathann Daval admitted to having carried out the partial cremation of Alexia's body in a nearby wood.