An opiate analgesic detected in the jogger's blood

Alexia Daval she was drugged without his knowledge? Tramadol, a potent opiate badgesic, was found in the blood of Alexia Daval during toxicological badyzes. A presence that is not "innocuous", for Mr. Randall Schwerdorffer, one of the lawyers of
Jonathann Daval.

Schwerdorffer spoke on Thursday a few minutes before the start of the interrogation of his client, Jonathann Daval, the number one suspect of the murder of his wife Alexia, by an investigating judge of the district court of Besançon.

Significant mood changes

Referring to "the results of the toxicological badysis of Alexia's blood, with the obvious presence of Tramadol," the lawyer told the press that it was "not trivial", noting "the consequences of this type of products. about the personality and the significant mood changes that it causes. " According to him, this question will be among the "important points" that will likely be addressed during this second interview of Jonathann Daval on the merits of the case.

Could Alexia have been drugged without her knowledge? "I'm not going to speculate, but what disturbs me is that very clearly Grégory Gay (Alexia's brother-in-law), two days ago, refers to the mother of Jonathann Daval as accomplice," which she then defended publicly, stated
Mr. Schwerdorffer.

"There was never any question of premeditation in this case"

"Yesterday, Alexia's parents refer to Jonathann as potentially a poisoner," hinting "that he would have acted premeditatedly for the purpose of eliminating Alexia by administering substances to him unknowingly to cause drowsiness, an accident, or to cause his death and, in finehe would have strangled her. "

"There was never any question of premeditation in this case, Jonathann Daval has never been suspected by the justice to be a poisoner," said Schwerdorffer. The emergence in the press of these elements "appeared a month after the death of Alexia" aims "what purpose? Impress Jonathan? He asked himself.

About-face

The body of Alexia Daval, 29, was found partially burned in early November 2017 in a wood not far from Gray-la-Ville, Haute-Saone, where the couple lived. After claiming that she had disappeared during a jog, Jonathann Daval was arrested in January and confessed in custody to strangling his wife during a dispute, while denying having burned the corpse.

At the beginning of the summer, the computer scientist had flip-flopped, baduring that he was not responsible for the murder and that his wife was in fact strangled by his brother-in-law, Grégory Gay, at the parents' home. 'Alexia. All would then have concluded "a secret pact" to conceal the facts. The autopsy revealed that Alexia Daval had been subjected to violence, beaten and strangled.