Daval case: 360,000 euros in compensation demanded by the family, justice is about to decide: Current Woman The MAG

More than three years after her disappearance, the death of Alexia Daval still spills a lot of ink. While the fate of Jonathann daval, found guilty of the murder of his wife on the night of October 28, 2017, was rendered three months ago, a new thorn in the matter is controversial. "I heard Alexia's family say they didn't want to make money off her death. Now, I ask myself the question ", had balanced Me Randall Schwerdorffer last December. And for good reason, if the thirty-six-year-old computer scientist has just begun his sentence of twenty-five years of imprisonment, he is still awaiting the amount granted to the victim's family as a moral and material indemnities. This claims more than 360,000 euros, a sum "disconcerting" for the young man's lawyer, Me Randall Schwerdorffer.

The last part of an over-mediatized affair (and not the least)

Monday, February 21, 2021, the Vesoul prosecutor's office is preparing to decide on a delicate aspect of "the post Daval affair". As specified West France, the Haute-Saône Assize Court began a civil hearing in the morning which should take place at the end of the day. However, the deliberation will not be made public before "several months", Me Ornella Spatafora, one of Jonathann Daval's lawyers, told the newspaper. A legal decision that should have been pronounced last December, in the wake of the verdict. However, in view of the intensity of the trial week, it was then decided to postpone the civil hearing to settle the issue of financial compensation paid to the victim and his relatives.

"Isabelle and Jean-Pierre Fouillot claim 150,000 euros each for non-pecuniary damage, as well as 60,000 euros in economic damage, linked to the sale of their bar-PMU in 2019 ", could we read in Eastern Republican, for a total of 360,000 euros. According to Le Figaro, Alexia’s sister, Stéphanie Gay, as well as her husband, Grégory Gay, considered their moral prejudice up to 175,000 euros. Their lawyer, Me Portejoie, justifies these large sums by the character "quite exceptional" of the situation. Indeed, even before he made a confession, Jonathann Daval first suspected his brother-in-law of having behaved suspiciously. "We were lied to, we were accused, the suffering added to the suffering", argued the lawyer for the Gay family.

In addition, added to the parents of the victim, as well as his sister, about fifteen other civil parties, uncles and aunts … also wish the payment "from 15,000 to 20,000 euros." Asked about this sum claimed by the parents of Alexia Daval, Me Gilles-Jean Portejoie had affirmed his plea: "These sums correspond to quite exceptional damages given the nature of the case." For Me Randall Schwerdorffer, on the other hand, these sums are not justified: "The amounts requested are four times greater than the usual case law. It's baffling … "

Jonathann Daval, Jean-Pierre and Isabelle Fouillot, parents of Alexia Daval, at the press conference at the town hall of Gray after the identification of Alexia Daval's body on November 02, 2017. Best image

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