User:Maggie91/Affaire Daval

The Daval Case, also known as the Alexia Daval case, or less frequently the Jonathan Daval case (moreover often spelt as Jonathann Daval case), was a French criminal case related to the murder of Alexia Daval (née Fouillot) who lived in Gray-la-Ville in Haute-Saône. The victim's partially burnt body was found in the area on October 30, 2017, two days after she had been reported missing.

After publicly mourning his wife's death together with his parents-in-law at a solemn march in her honour, Jonathan Daval was quickly arrested for questioning and taken into custody. He first admitted to killing his wife " by accident " and then retracted and accused his brother-in-law of committing the murder as part of a family conspiracy. After several months of denying his involvement and making false accusations against his brother-in-law, Jonathan Daval confessed his crime and recognized he had tried to set the victim's body on fire. Some information came through via source protection in a case where investigative journalism is becoming bolder.

The examination of the case by an investigating judge closed on November 9, 2019 and a trial, widely commented by national media, opened on November 16, 2020 and ended on November 21, with Jonathan Daval sentenced to 25 years imprisonment without tariff.

The Daval case has become a symbol of femicide in France.

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