Denying en bloc, going to confessions, then returning several times to his statements, Jonathann Daval had finally confessed to the murder of his wife Alexia, which occurred in 2017. His long-awaited trial opens this Monday before the assizes of Vesoul, in the department of Haute-Saône.
This Monday opens a long-awaited trial before the assizes of Vesoul, in the department of Haute-Saône.
Jonathann Daval, 36, is on trial for the murder of his wife Alexia in 2017. His defense intends to argue the psychological violence of which he would have been the victim, while the family of the young woman evokes completely unfounded accusations.
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The images of Jonathann Daval in tears in front of the cameras are still vivid.
Alexia's husband had denied for months, confessed, and then repeatedly changed his story.
The course of the events is now almost entirely known: after the beatings and strangulation, the man carries his wife's body into the forest and tries to cremate it.
Over the course of the investigation, Jonathann Daval finally confessed.
Alexia's family refuses to have her image dirty
Still, the reasons that led to Alexia's death are still unclear.
At the assizes, the lawyer of the accused, Master Ornella Spatafora, evokes "reproaches" addressed by Alexia to her husband then "the words of too much": "They are tolerated, accepted, and then one day we do not support them any more because they demolish the little self-confidence that we had left ", explains the lawyer at the microphone of Europe 1.
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Alexia's family refuses to dirty the image of the young woman.
"Everything they are going to say about Alexia is false," exclaims the mother of the victim Isabelle Fouillot, referring to wiretaps that did not yield anything and a totally empty file.
"The more the days go by, the more I miss Alexia. Mourning is not possible at the moment," she sighs.
The trial is to last the whole week.
Jonathann Daval faces life imprisonment.