After having remained silent during the entire investigation and then the entire trial of Jonathann Daval, his mother Martine Henry needed to "free herself from a weight".

The mother of Alexia's murderer told herself in a book published in November, a "therapy", she confides to BFM.

The case had been so difficult to live with that during the trial, she appeared in a wheelchair, affected by a herniated disc which disappeared after the verdict.

“I admitted what happened at the trial.

My subconscious refused to admit it,” she explains.

Since then, she has visited her son once or twice a month at the central house in Ensisheim, with her husband.

“We don't learn to hear the doors closing, the keys”, but “we have to go there for the love of our children”, she says.

She still hopes to be up when her son, sentenced to twenty-five years in prison, is released from prison.

Because “never, never, never” did she think of turning her back on her son.

“I know that I am the mother of a murderer, but my son will remain my son,” she insists.

“I could have changed things”

"My son is not a monster, but he did something wrong," she assumes, claiming to have spoken with him to try to understand his acting out.

"He still can't explain it to himself.

He begins to ask himself questions, how he did that, why he did that.

It will take time, there was a before, during and there is an after.

“Martine Henry has also agreed to return to the retracted confessions of Jonathann Daval during the investigation.

“I discovered everything at the trial, the couple problems, the baby, the miscarriage… He couldn't confide in me, because of Alexia,” she explains.

“If I had listened to him, if I had tried to understand what he was telling me, yes, I could have changed things,” she breathes.



Now, Martine Henry believes she has "said everything in her book" and no longer wants to go back to this story.

Especially after the reactions aroused by her remarks in December, when she confided to RTL that her son "gets along very well with Guy Georges".

“Jonathan is not going to spend his life talking to walls, he talks to Guy Georges as he talks to other people.

It's the prison environment”, she justifies, explaining that “Guy Georges, I did not know what he did because I am not interested in all that”.

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