Alexia, our daughter
and
I wanted her to shut up
.
Two books, two approaches.
One is Alexia Daval's parents, Isabelle and Jean-Pierre Fouillot, who co-wrote it with journalist and television producer Thomas Chagnaud.
It will appear on October 28 at Robert Laffont.
The other is the lawyer for murderer Jonathann Daval, Me Randall Schwerdorffer, who co-wrote it with journalist Frédéric Gilbert.
It was published on October 14 by Éditions Hugo Doc.
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Four years after the murder of Alexia Daval, everyone delivers their version of the facts. On the one hand, there is Me Randall Schwerdorffer, who offers a book focusing on the “
complex
” personality of his client but also on the history of the couple. Subtitled "
The love tragedy of Alexia and Jonathann Daval
", the book aims to "
analyze the Daval affair from the angle of the love tragedy
", which would make it possible, according to a press release from its publisher, to "
understand how and why this has become in a few days the most publicized news item of the last twenty years and how this affair was able to stand out from the too many feminicides that France experienced in 2017
”.
If Me Schwerdorffer affirms to
Midi Libre to
have kept a certain proximity "
which cannot be explained
" with his client, he says to have also managed to gain height, raising in his book social questions related to the case, such that a reflection on the word “
feminicide
”, but also “
the freedom of expression of lawyers in the criminal process
”, while passing by the question of the presumption of innocence and the
media
“
tsunami
” of which the Daval affair has is about. "
One of the objectives of this book is to tell the difficulty of defending a man like Jonathann in a gendered society
", explains the lawyer to
Le Figaro
, adding thathe "
will follow until the end
”the one for whom“
he has empathy
”.
Asked about the title of his book, the latter wished to specify that this sentence, as well as that pronounced by the mother of the victim during the trial, "
you are not a man
", are, for him, the key to this case.
In addition, it is a title which, according to Me Schwerdorffer, “
has the advantage of not going back on a court decision, as is the case with Alexia's parents' book, which speaks of 'murder' .
Unlike theirs, my book remains as close as possible to judicial truth,
”he believes.
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The victim's parents' book offers a story "
from the inside, as close as possible to the killer
", assures their publisher. A testimony which wants to be "
the truth about the murder of our daughter
", indicates the subtitle. “
Her name was Alexia. It was our daughter. And it's been four years since she was killed by the one who promised to love her. Since then, we no longer live. We survive,
”the parents of the deceased write on the back cover. The editor also stresses that it is for them a "
tribute
" to the young girl, throughout which Isabelle and Jean-Pierre Fouillot "
finally tried to understand
" what had happened. An "
incredible scenario
"Which traces, according to the editor, the testimony of"
those who surrounded him
[Jonathann Daval, Editor's note]
during these long evenings of lies, pain and manipulation
".
Jonathann Daval was sentenced on November 21, 2019 to 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife Alexia.
His body was discovered in October 2017 in Gray-la-Ville (Haute-Saône), partly charred.
After showing the face of a tearful widower for three months, the computer scientist had been confused by investigators from the gendarmerie after careful investigations.