In an interview with Le Parisien newspaper, Jean-Pierre and Isabelle Fouillot returned to the months following the assassination of Alexia Daval. For many weeks, Jonathann Daval displayed himself as a grieving widower, going so far as to choose his wife’s coffin.
“We had to be under control.“For four years, Jean-Pierre and Isabelle Fouillot, the parents of Alexia Daval, have been rewriting the scenario in a loop. That of their last evening with their daughter, a few hours before her assassination, and the weeks which followed this tragedy. three months, Jonathann Daval will play the grieving widower. While he killed and concealed Alexia Daval’s body before burning it, he will visit his in-laws every day and have dinner with them. “We don’t want him to suffer in his corner, when in fact he is already in the process of rebuilding himself. Eight days after Alexia’s death, he goes to the library to return his books, spends evenings in Dijon or on a friend’s birthday, goes to run a marathon in the Jura …“, remembers Isabelle Fouillot in an interview given to the Parisian.
During this interview, Alexia’s parents spoke of an even more disturbing fact: Jonathann Daval went so far as to choose his wife’s coffin. “Machiavellianism to the end. He chose the color of the wood of the coffin. She liked purple, he wanted fabric of that color inside, he also chose the tombstone with us…“Says Alexia Daval’s mother. For her part, Jean-Pierre Fouillot is sorry:”And we at that time wanted to protect him. We never doubted him, until the end.“In January 2019, Jonathann Daval admits to having strangled his wife.
Jonathann Daval went to “empty his corpses”
Another detail shocks Alexia’s parents: the alibi used by their son-in-law to explain the presence of his car not far from where the body was found, the night of the murder. “When you think he says he went “to empty his corpses.” Do you realize the expression?“, asserts Isabelle Fouillot.”He was talking about empty bottles that he went to put in a container the day he stashed our daughter’s body. “Corpses” as he says“, adds Jean-Pierre Fouillot. The parents of the young woman have no doubts: Jonathann Daval is a manipulator.”He was often in tears, but in fact it was bullshit. When we know his Machiavellianism, when we see how he made up everything.“