Five years after the murder of their daughter, the parents of Alexia Fouillot will recover one of Jonathann Daval’s most precious possessions. A situation that arises when the thirty-year-old owes a lot of money to his ex-in-law family.
On the night of October 27 to 28, 2017, the whole of France discovers the Fouillot family and their son-in-law, Jonathann Daval, devastated by the loss of Alexia Daval. The body of the 30-year-old was found partially charred, near Gray-la-Ville, in Haute-Saône. Before confessing to the murder by strangulation of his wife and the attempted burning of the body of his victim, the thirties had denied and accused the members of his ex-in-laws of murder. In November 2020, he was sentenced by the Assize Court of Vesoul to 25 years’ imprisonment for “murder on his spouse”. Jonathann Daval is also ordered to pay damages to Alexia Daval’s family in the amount of 165,000 euros. A sum that the former IT technician cannot pay out of pocket. However, when his wife died, he recovered 50% of their house in Gray-la-Ville. A pavilion that Jonathann Daval is preparing to sell to his ex-in-laws.
Owners half with the murderer of their daughter, Isabelle and Jean-Pierre Fouillot then filed a complaint against their ex-son-in-law to force him to sell them his 50% of the house. The court agreed with them. Indeed, according to the Civil Code, Jonathann Daval should not have inherited from his victim, after his conviction for murder, details The Parisian. The parents of the one who has become one of the symbols of feminicide in France, “had only one real claim, that was to recover this family home, both a place of happiness and tragedy”. This pavilion belongs to the Fouillot family. Alexia and Jonathann Daval had taken possession of it after their marriage and had furnished it to their tastes.
Jonathann Daval owes a large sum of money to Alexia’s parents
The sale of this very precious asset for the family would allow Alexia’s relatives to raise nearly 175,000 euros, enough to largely compensate the parents of the victim. The 30-year-old did not oppose this court decision. Since the end of the trial which opposed them to their ex-son-in-law, Isabelle and Jean-Pierre Fouillot have never spoken to him again. For the united couple, Jonathann Daval was “as (their) son“.
While the family was claiming 800,000 euros in damages, the Vesoul court dismissed his request for reasons ofa lack of “bond of affection” between uncles and aunts and the young woman of 29 years. In the meantime, the court ruled “inadmissible”he requests for inheritance costs claimed by the Fouillot family from Jonathann Daval.