While he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife Alexia, Jonathann Daval would have met someone in prison. Dominique Rizet revealed the information to our colleagues from Télé Star.
This Monday, September 12, TF1 will broadcast The Daval mystery, a TV movie inspired by the murder of Alexia Daval, by her husband Jonathann Daval. While the case marked the French, the former computer scientist was sentenced in November 2020 to 25 years in prison. After spending three years in the Dijon remand center, he was transferred to a central house in May 2021. Since then, he would have rebuilt his life in prison according to Dominique Rizet, the specialist in news items on the BFMTV channel. “I have a scoop for you that I have from a reliable source: Jonathann Daval has found love in prison!”revealed the journalist in the columns of Télé-Star on newsstands September 19.
For our colleagues, Dominique Rizet also explained that he had not seen the TV movie inspired by the case of the same name. The production called on Liam Baty, revealed in the series Tomorrow belongs to us, to embody Jonathann Daval on screen. Besides, the resemblance to the murderer is disturbing. In the cast, we also find Maud Baecker in the role of Alexia Daval, Thierry Neuvic as police captain DaCosta and Michèle Bernier who plays the mother of Alexia Daval.
A highly publicized case
It was a news item that aroused great emotion in 2017. On the night of October 27 to 28 of the same year, Alexia Daval, 29, disappeared without a trace. A few days later, the young woman was finally found, her body partially charred. The suspicions had quickly turned to her husband Jonathann Daval. Very close to his in-laws, the man had denied the facts. He was finally arrested by the police on January 19, 2018 and confessed to the murder of his wife. The trial of Jonathann Daval in 2020 had been widely publicized and followed by many French people.