DAVAL. On the airwaves of RTL, Thursday, November 17, the mother of Jonathann Daval indulged in a few small secrets about the life in prison of her son, and in particular about his relationship with the serial killer Guy Georges.
[Mis à jour le 18 novembre 2022 à 17h07] In prison for five years for the murder of his wife Alexia Daval, Jonathann Daval, sentenced to spend 25 years behind bars, is serving his sentence alongside several big names who have marked the news section in recent decades. Incarcerated at the central house of Ensisheim, in the Haut-Rhin, Jonathann Daval shares the same prison as serial killers Francis Heaulme, Patrice Allègre and Guy Georges, as well as the pedophile killer Nordahl Lelandais, found guilty in the Maëlys case. .
Guest on the waves of RTLThursday, November 17, the mother of Jonathann Daval, who released that day his book entitled Me, mum of Jonathann, published by Michalon editions, returned to the incarceration of her son, whom she regularly visits. “We go there every 15 days. It’s a routine, it’s our new life. I need to see him and he needs to see us,” she confided, assuring: ” I will always be there for Jonathann. I cannot deny my child, even if he is a criminal.”
But it was his statements about the other famous cohabitants of the prison where Jonathann Daval is located that particularly caught the attention. Claiming “don’t [être] worried at all” for her son, Martine Henry confided that the latter “gets along very well with Guy Georges”. And to add: “I did not expect that.” If the serial killer, who has raged in the 90s, “did very horrible things”, she conceded, this one would not be less sympathetic with her. “He comes to say hello to us, he is very nice, very polite. He must have changed in prison because they all change in prison, they calm down.”
For a time, Jonathann Daval tried to fool the investigators and Alexia’s family. Finally, some clues found near the corpse had finally caught the murderer, forced to recognize his act. Placed in pre-trial detention on January 29, 2018, two years before his trial, the 30-year-old was imprisoned in the Dijon remand center, where he had been placed in solitary confinement upon his arrival, given his “notoriety” . Although cut off from the other inmates, he had also had to adopt a false first name in prison: Jonathan had become Kevin. But a blunder from one of his lawyers had finally put an end to the scheme, as his main lawyer, Me Randall Schwerdorferr, explained to Gala (Quoted by Closer).
A little over three years after the start of his incarceration in Dijon, Jonathann Daval changed prison establishment. In May 2021, the murderer had been transferred to a so-called “transition” establishment located in Île-de-France, “with a view to integrating a central house”, as one of his lawyers, Me Ornella, had told Spatafora, at The Republican East. He finally landed at the central house of Ensisheim, in Alsace, “famous” for being the prison of Guy Georges, Francis Heaulme, Patrice Allègre or Nordhal Lelandais, but also for having hosted Émile Louis or Michel Fourniret in the past. .
Now, Jonathann Daval once again meets prisoners, takes part in walks and activities. According to the confidences of his mother, November 17, 2022, on the waves of RTL, Jonathann Daval “gets along very well with Guy Georges”. For his part, Me Randall Schwerdorffer told, at the beginning of July 2022 to Planet, that his now ex-client “has a lot of activities, he is very involved in manual or other activities, he still has frequent contact with his family”. Also at RTL, in November 2022, his mother, Martine Henry, also confirmed his statements. “We go there every 15 days. It’s a routine, it’s our new life. I need to see him and he needs to see us.” And to detail: “We hear the keys, the doors all the time, there are lots of people. It’s very destabilizing. (…) I will always be there for Jonathann. I cannot deny my child, even if it is a criminal.”
Eternal resentment of the parents of Alexia Daval
A completely broken family bond with Alexia’s family. Authors of a book released on October 28, 2021, the date of the four years of the death of their daughter, the parents of the victim had explained to France info not being able to get up from the drama: “We can’t wake up from such a nightmare. We fall asleep with the nightmare and we wake up with the nightmare. And that’s every day. We took perpetuity.” Forgiveness, never. All the more so after the lies at the start of the investigation. “During [ces] three months, he really put us under control. He sowed little pebbles in our heads to really pass himself off as innocent and to make himself loved by us and to be our son. He called me mum anyway for the three months. If it is not perversion”, said Isabelle Fouillot, who had driven the point home, castigating the attitude of her former son-in-law: “this gentleman is indecent. He insulted our grief for four years, so it’s too much to bear.”
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The death of Alexia Daval was surrounded by a lot of questions in the first weeks following the discovery of her body. The theory of a bad meeting was first favored, given the scenario set out by Jonathan, according to whom, his wife had gone for a jog, this famous Saturday, October 28, 2017.
But little by little, the investigators leaning on the young man, in secret, put the finger on a complex personality and on a couple more problematic than in appearance. They end up arresting Jonathan, at the end of January 2018, before the latter delivers the first part of his confession. He admits to having caused the death of Alexia, but involuntarily, following an argument during which he would have strangled the young woman. This version is in accordance with the elements of the file, which point to the death by asphyxiation of the young banker from Gray. At that time, Jonathan denies, on the other hand, having set fire to the remains.
A few months later, a new turnaround: the thirty-year-old computer scientist once again claims to be innocent. He then accuses his in-laws of having fomented a family plot aimed at hiding the death of Alexia, which would have been caused during the dinner on Friday October 27, 2017, during which his wife would have entered a great phase of anger, then killed by her brother-in-law Grégory Gay. This new lie lasted a few weeks, until Jonathan confronted his in-laws.
In front of Alexia’s mother, Isabelle Fouillot, in tears and on her knees, he finally admits being responsible for Alexia’s death, thus returning to his initial version. Despite everything, there remains the question of the cremation of the body, which he still does not explain to the investigators, leaving room for the existence of a complicity. It will not be until June 2019, during the reconstruction of the facts, that Jonathan Daval confessed to having set fire to the remains of Alexia, where he had deposited the body, in a wood on the edge of Gray.
In an interview given to Parisian on October 28, 2021, the parents confided in each other at length, retracing in particular the last evening before the death of Alexia. “He was sitting on this sofa, always very considerate, busy serving the aperitif. He just arrived a little late. Me, I closed the bar a little earlier than usual to find my daughters and my family, and I am very happy with this evening which is announced” explained the father of Alexia. “Everything is going as usual, in a very natural climate. We notice absolutely nothing, no animosity between Jonathan and Alexia, everything is more normal” explained Isabelle Fouillot for her part.
The day after the murder, the parents said that Jonathan had gone to the house, in a panic, crying: “I calm him down, ask him what’s going on. He replies that Alexia has gone running and that she didn’t come home. I look at the time, tell her that she has to talk to someone, that she shouldn’t worry. But Jonathan is convinced that something has happened to her. At that moment there, Stephanie (their eldest daughter) sees that she has a message from her sister sent earlier. She warns her that she is going for a run and that she might come for a kiss (a message sent by Jonathan Editor’s note).”
The couple also said that Jonathan Daval came to eat every evening after the discovery of the body in the woods. Above all, during the funeral, they sought to console him, when he was guilty. “He makes his little life at home, but comes to eat every evening. We don’t want him to suffer in his corner, when in fact he is already rebuilding himself. Eight days after death of Alexia, he goes to the library to return his books, spends evenings in Dijon or at a friend’s birthday, goes to run a marathon in the Jura… And, at the same time, he tells us that we will be always at home in the house where our daughter was killed. You speak! My childhood home…” Alexia’s mother got carried away. “We almost forbid ourselves to have pain and sorrow ourselves in order to console him, it’s crazy!” added the father.