Daval affair: shock revelation on the text read by Jonathann Daval on the day of the famous white march

The images had toured France. On November 5, 2017, five days after the discovery of the body of his wife, Alexia, Jonathann Daval publicly mourned her death during a white march organized in her tribute. Supported by his in-laws, Jean-Pierre and Isabelle Fouillothe spoke a few words in front of the crowd, his voice broken by tears.

“My wife and I shared the same thirst for freedom, he confided. (…) She was my first supporter, my oxygen, the force that pushed me to surpass myself during my physical challenges. We knew how to draw from our looks, our exchanges, the energy necessary to go further together. (…) The strength of our couple made us surpass ourselves in our outings and in our life together. I will miss this fullness terribly.”

“It was mainly my son-in-law who wrote”

That day, Jonathann Daval had lied to all of France. On his responsibility in the murder of his wife, first, then on this famous speech. In his book Me, mum of Jonathannpublished on November 17, 2022 by Michalon editions, Martine Henry, Jonathann’s motherreveals that the words spoken by his son were not even his own. “The text that Jonathann read was very reproached to him afterwards, because he said that Alexia was his ‘oxygen’ while the poor thing died of strangulation. But Jonathann didn’t write this text alone, it’s not his thing, writes the 66-year-old childminder. Him, he can’t say what he wants, what he really feels, so it’s mainly my son-in-law who wrote it. He couldn’t know.”

According to Martine Henry, the speech delivered by Jonathann Daval was therefore written by his brother-in-law. Further proof of the young man’s lack of sincerity, who hid the truth for three months before confessing on January 30, 2018. For the murder of his wife, Jonathann Daval was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He is now serving his sentence at the central house of Ensisheim, in the Bas-Rhin.