The Besançon Court of Appeal confirmed, this Friday, the conviction of Jonathann Daval, who is serving a twenty-five-year prison sentence for the murder of his wife Alexia in 2017, to pay nearly 160,000 euros in damages. to the victim's family.

The court, on the other hand, deemed “inadmissible” the new requests for inheritance costs made by the parents of the young woman.

Jonathann Daval is ordered to pay 130,000 euros to Jean-Pierre and Isabelle Fouillot, Alexia's parents, far from the 350,000 euros they initially claimed.

The victim's sister, Stéphanie Gay, her husband and their son will be respectively compensated up to 18,000 euros, 8,000 euros and 3,000 euros.

“We are close to the epilogue”

“It is an anecdotal decision insofar as my clients have already been compensated by the Civi (compensation commission for victims of offences), estimated Me Jean-Hubert Portejoie, the lawyer for the parents and the sister of 'Alexia.

It now remains to settle the succession of Alexia.

We are close to the epilogue.

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As in the first instance, justice did not retain the "media damage" invoked by the family of the young woman, a first judicial.

She felt that the media coverage of this case had made "more painful and difficult their work of mourning".

“The claim on this count of media harm was indecent.

We cannot claim media damage by over-participating in this media coverage, ”according to Jonathann Daval's lawyer, Me Randall Schwerdorffer.

He recalls that the parents of the victim, who spoke widely in the media, recently published a book on the case.

“The court rendered a fair decision by putting the civil parties back in their true position of victim and not of extraordinary victim,” he added.

Alexia's family members originally asked for 800,000 euros

The Haute-Saône Assize Court had condemned Jonathann Daval on May 25, 2021 to pay 165,000 euros in damages to the relatives of his wife, a decision which some had appealed, considering this amount very insufficient.

Alexia's family members originally asked for 800,000 euros, but the courts dismissed the ten uncles and aunts who had not demonstrated a "link of affection" with their niece.

Jonathann Daval strangled his wife Alexia on the night of October 27 to 28, 2017 at their home in Gray-la-Ville (Haute-Saône).

The next day he transported his body to a wood before setting it on fire and sounding the alarm, claiming that his wife had not returned from her jogging.

Alexia's body was found two days later.

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