"I am responsible for his version change": Jonathann Daval's mother speaks in "Seven to eight"

“My son may be a criminal but he is still my son”

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Martine Henry ended up admitting that she was the mother of a murderer, Jonathann Daval.

Exclusively, she agreed to confide in “The Portrait of the week” of the Sunday program broadcast on TF1.

The opportunity for her to express herself on the guilt she feels since the murder of her stepdaughter.

Five years have passed since his son, Jonathann, was imprisoned after strangling and then burning his wife, Alexia.

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Sentenced to twenty-five years of criminal imprisonment, he is in detention in the Haut-Rhin in Alsace.

The prisoner is visited every two weeks by his mother.

, ”she underlines lucidly.

And when the journalist asks him if the idea of ​​​​rejecting his son has touched him, the mother of the family is categorical.

," replies the interested party to Audrey Crespo-Mara.

And even if she does not condone his act, she affirms that she will always be there for him.

"In my head, it wasn't him"

“He doesn't understand how he could have done everything he had done

,” says Martine Henry.

And yet, the 38-year-old man has repeatedly changed his version of the facts.

He went from denial to confession only to later retract again and this time accuse his brother-in-law and his parents-in-law.

At the time, he tries to make his mother understand the truth but she doesn't want to hear anything and refuses to believe him.

, ”she laments.

For his mother, there is no doubt:

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However, in addition to having given birth to a murderer, Martine Henry claims

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Five years after her life changed, she signed a book

, testimony on the unspoken revolving around the Daval affair.