Murder of Alexia: Jonathann Daval asks "forgiveness" before the start of the deliberation

Jonathann Daval, tried since Monday for the murder of his wife Alexia, whom he recognizes, twice asked "pardon" on Saturday from the civil parties, before the Assize Court of Haute-Saône withdrew to deliberate.

Invited by the President of the Court Matthieu Husson to speak for the last time, Jonathann Daval, looking towards Alexia's parents and after a brief silence, declared "sorry, sorry".

For Jonathann Daval's lawyer, "it's what we call 'a stroke of blood'"

This murder was "not premeditated, not considered, it is what is called 'a stroke of blood'", launched Saturday Me Randall Schwerdorffer, one of the three lawyers of Jonathann Daval, who pleaded a violent quarrel between the two spouses, grappling with important problems of the couple: erectile dysfunction for him, unfulfilled desire for a child for her, hence heavy communication difficulties between the two.

This argument, she broke out because, contrary to her habit, Jonathann "could not flee".

"Alexia, retains it, there is a confrontation", advanced the council, which rejected the hypothesis of a separation wanted by Alexia and that Jonathann would not have supported, thesis supported by the civil parties and the Advocate General .

The verdict expected during the day

"He was not sent back for murder," he added, again urging the jurors not to follow the attorney general who had earlier called for life imprisonment, "sentence of social elimination ", according to Me Schwerdorffer.

"Jonathann is indeed a criminal. He does not dispute it, you are going to judge him. But a judgment is not revenge. What we are asking of you, on the benches of the civil parties, is revenge, to because of the media, lies, because he betrayed his parents-in-law, "he insisted.

The verdict is expected at the end of the afternoon or in the evening.