Alexia Daval lost her life on the night of October 28 to 29, 2017, killed by her husband Jonathann Daval. A murder confessed months later and which led to the conviction of Jonathann Daval to 25 years in prison at the end of his trial. Last June, the Besançon Court of Appeal also confirmed the conviction of Jonathann Daval to pay nearly 160,000 euros in damages to the victim’s family.
While at the end of 2021 Alexia Daval’s parents (Isabelle and Jean-Pierre Fouillot) published their book Alexia, our daughter with the journalist Thomas Chagnaud at the Editions Robert Laffont, it is today the mother of Jonathann Daval who expresses herself in a manuscript. A few days before the release of Me, mother of Jonathann Daval Michalon editions, Martine Henry gives an interview to the Sunday newspaper in which she reiterates all her support for her boy despite the murder he committed.
“I want to speak in my turn. To show that reality is always more complicated. My son, Jonathann, is not a monster, even if what he did is monstrous“, defends the 66-year-old childminder still in activity. For Martine Henry, giving birth to a child commits to remaining present in good and bad times. “Whatever he’s done, I’ll always be here“, assures the mother of Jonathann Daval, consumed by guilt for not having succeeded in preventing the murder of Alexia.After such a drama, we see everything that has happened since childhood and we question ourselves. What did I do ? What did I miss? Jonathann was a quiet, solitary child. It was going very well at school. We’ll never know I guess“, entrusts the mother of seven children to the JDD.