Isabelle and Jean-Pierre Fouillot, the parents of Alexia Daval, justified themselves on the motivations which push them to adapt the death of their daughter in television series.
The Daval affair, soon on the screens. During the night of October 27 to 28, 2017, Alexia Daval was murdered by her companion, Jonathann. Before confessing the murder, at the end of a reenactment of the drama, Jonathann Daval played the grieving widowers alongside his in-laws, Isabelle and Jean-Pierre Fouillot. Four years after the death of their daughter Alexia, 29, her parents published a book Alexia, our daughter co-written with Thomas Chagnaud. A work that will be adapted for a television series by Gaumont. A project which, as we know, does not please everyone, starting with Jonathann Daval’s mother who implored Alexia’s parents to let her son serve his sentence and to put an end to the media surge caused by this story .
During an interview with Gala, Thomas Chagnaud, the co-author of the book Alexia, our daughter was justified on the motivations which push the parents of Alexia Daval to pay homage, once again to their daughter. Indeed, they have been accused by some of wanting “to sell”The death of Alexia Daval. They responded through Thomas Chagnaud. For him, these “don’t sell their drama. ” The goal is “To do things well and not in voyeurism”, is it still said about this tv adaptation. “I am not convinced that there is an indignity in wanting to tell the story of their daughter. It’s the only freedom they have left ”, the journalist concluded.
Daval affair: a TV project that divides
As a reminder, after the announcement of this television adaptation, Martine Henry, Jonathann Daval’s mother let go: “I don’t agree with this movie story, and Jonathann doesn’t agree either. I would like all that to stop … We’re sick of it. Jonathann has been tried, he is going to do his sentence, let him be left in peace. It is shameful, it is indecent. Really, we must leave people in peace, and the dead too… He doesn’t want anyone to talk about him anymore, he wants to be quiet. My son is not a fairground animal ”. Then, at the last I heard, she was considering whether to take part. “She reflects because the fiction will be done without us or with us, and it might be better if it is done with us” Family lawyer Randall Schwerdorffer said in Les Grosses Têtes on RTL on November 19, 2021.