On October 28, 2017, Alexia Fouillot, Daval’s wife, was killed by her husband, Jonathann Daval. The parents of the victim are taking out a book today and tell about their daughter, but also their pain.
It was just 4 years ago. On the night of October 27 to 28, 2017, Alexia Fouillot, wife of Daval, would die, strangled and then burned by Jonathann Daval. After passing himself off as a devastated husband for many months, he finally turns out to be the author of the murder of Alexia, who has become one of the symbols of feminicides in France. Today, the parents of the young woman are publishing a book, Alexia, our daughter (edited by Robert Lafont), in which they tell how they experienced the affair, marked by twists and turns and extraordinary media coverage.
At the microphone of the show “The time of the crime”, on RTL, his parents evoke the manipulation of which they were victims on behalf of their son-in-law and their pain in front of certain elements never clarified. Was Alexia Fouillot drugged before the murder? How exactly did it go? The only witness to the crime: Happy, the couple’s adored cat, whom Isabelle and Jean-Pierre Fouillot evoke with emotion. “Sometimes we find ourselves all ‘weedbee’ kneeling in front of him, asking him ‘What happened?’ A detail that reveals the difficulty of living with questions to which Jonathann Daval, even during his trial, never answered.
He is now serving a 25-year prison sentence. At the end of 2020, on France Info, the parents of his victim explained: “It is we who have taken the most, it is we who have taken life.”