the husband delivers a version involving his in-laws

Until his surprise turnaround , made public this Wednesday, July 4, Jonathann Daval denied only one thing: trying to set fire to the body of his wife Alexia after abandoning it on the edge of a wood near Gray, Haute-Saone, in the night of October 27 to 28, 2017. In police custody, after his arrest on January 29, and before the investigating judge, on March 9, the 34-year-old computer scientist admitted to having killed "Accidentally" in an argument that went wrong

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He reportedly panicked, wrapped the corpse in a sheet recovered from his home and transported him in the woods with his company car. In order to validate her first thesis of a jogging in which the 29-year-old bank employee was badaulted by a ranger, he put his sports shoes on his woman's feet and then used the victim's mobile phone for sending in his name, his relatives, SMS accrediting this montage.

If all the results of scientific badyzes ordered have not yet been transmitted to the investigators of the gendarmerie, they had already gathered evidence confirming part this version. Thus, the "tracker" of the company car of Jonathann Daval had confirmed the night exit, also noted by close neighbors. Which is not enough to identify with certainty the driver. The origin of the sheet found on the body was also established.

But the very fragile psychological and physical state of the indicted for "aggravated murder" on January 30, had not allowed to go further in the interrogations. His lawyer, Mr. ^e Randall Schwerdorffer, whose energetic remarks during the custody of his client had made the judicial chronicle, admits also that it was there a personality "Difficult to access" and that it was appropriate to let him regain strength at the prison Dijon before hearing it again.

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"A real nightmare"

When Jonathann Daval, in better form, let him know that the truth was "different" from what he had previously declared, and that the murderer would in fact be his brother-in-law Grégory Gay, husband of Stephanie, Alexia's sister, his defender admitted to have been first "stunned" . But as he had doubts about the initial account of the alleged murderer, who did not "met" not according to him with elements of the file, he thought it preferable that the magistrate instructor be informed, since such was the wish of his client

At his request, Jonathann Daval was received, on June 27, by the judge. It was there that he had provided this new scenario: after a raclette evening at his in-laws, he and his wife would not have returned home, contrary to what he stated in his first version. During this meal, Alexia would have had "once again" a "hysterical crisis" and it is Grégory Gay who would have strangled her, supposedly to calm her down ; in order to quell the affair, the whole family would have sealed a secret pact and acted accordingly. In short, he had no responsibility for the death and its aftermath.

It is in this context that the investigating judge summoned, on Wednesday, July 4, the parents of Alexia, Jean-Pierre and Isabelle Fouillot, her sister Stephanie and her brother-in-law Grégory Gay at the Besançon courthouse where the hearings lasted five hours. All the incriminated people came out free in the middle of the afternoon. "Shocked" Grégory Gay has "formally denied" the charges against him. The mother of Alexia confided to live "a real nightmare" .

A word "very little credible"

M ^e Jean-Marc Florand, who represents the civil parties, did not want to discuss the merits of the case, but he confirmed that face of the alleged murderer in an interview exclusive to L'Est Républicain . Jonathann Daval "has considerably modified his first statements" he told the regional daily.

"While he had very little to say about the facts, and that his words did not correspond in no way to the material findings of the case […] this time it gave long statements at the end of which it evokes a closed family and a number of complicities. At this stage, these very serious accusations will have to give rise to precise verifications. Because in the state, they are absolutely not corroborated by the elements of the procedure. »

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It is little to say that the new statements of Jonathann Daval have left the investigators skeptical. The family lawyer too. "The word of Mr. Daval is, at this stage, very little credible" considered M ^e Florand in the same interview. "We look forward to the expertise of psychiatrists that will allow us to measure the credit that should be given to this word. "

The gendarmes found that on several occasions the indictment had tried to " manipulate " his interlocutors or opinion, especially when he had displayed himself in ] "Widowed and inconsolable widower" in front of the cameras on Alexia's funeral day. But the case is sensitive enough, and some areas of shade are too persistent, so that the slightest aspect is neglected. The story will therefore be checked in every detail.