The strange Daval affair, a diabolical plot

Published on 11/12/2024 at 2:00 p.m.
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With eyes reddened by tears, a somber expression, supported at each of his appearances by his in-laws, Jonathann Daval played the grieving widower for months. During this time, he fooled everyone: his family, his relatives, his friends and thousands of people who came to pay tribute, during white marches, to Alexia, his young wife found dead on October 30, 2018. Two days after his disappearance, the body of the 29-year-old young woman was discovered in a wood, in the Esmoulins forest, west of Dijon. The remains showed marks of blows, strangulation and were partially charred…

Her husband, a computer scientist described as a man “kind and discreet”had reported his disappearance 48 hours earlier. He claimed that Alexia never came home from her morning run. With her brother-in-law, they had traveled the region to try to find her before going to the police to report Alexia’s disappearance.

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