the fate of Cédric Jubillar in the hands of the judge
Cedric Jubillar, suspected of the murder of his wife Delphine, who disappeared one night in December 2020 in the Tarn, does he remain in prison? A judge will hear, Thursday, June 9, the suspect n ° 1, detained for a year, before deciding on his possible release.
“The warrant of deposit, for a period of one year, expires in a few days. Cédric Jubillar is innocent, the detention is unjustified and we will repeat it before the JLD (liberty and detention judge), until ‘to’ that we are heard”, insists Jean-Baptiste Alary, one of his defenders.
“It’s a case that, instead of being supported, is falling apart, collapsing a little more every day,” said the lawyer.
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He had been charged with intentional homicide.
On June 18, 2021, six months after the 33-year-old nurse was last seen at their home in Cagnac-les-Mines, near Albi, her husband was indicted for voluntary homicide. Before being placed in pre-trial detention at the Seysses remand center, near Toulouse.
Cédric Jubillar admits that he has nothing to do with the disappearance of his wife, who came to announce her decision to divorce him. His lawyers filed several requests for release, all of which were rejected.
Without overwhelming evidence, confessions, crime scene or body that can deliver decisive elements, the investigators believe, however, that they have gathered a bundle of sufficient clues to justify keeping the 34-year-old painter and plasterer in prison.
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The hearing will likely be held behind closed doors
The hearing before the judge, which will probably take place at brothel according to Me Alary, is scheduled for Thursday at 10:00 a.m. at the Toulouse courthouse, in the presence of his lawyers.
For Philippe Pressecq, lawyer for relatives of Delphine Jubillar, “there is no debate, the conditions for continued detention are met. There are serious and consistent indications suggesting that the person under investigation participated in the offense ” .
A year since, he adds, “we have not seen a single element come to say the opposite. In the file, on three pages of serious and consistent elements against Cédric Jubillar. No one would understand that he did not not be kept in detention”.
If the defenders challenge the JLD’s decision, the investigation chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal will be seized.
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She worked in a night clinic in Albi
Delphine, who worked as a night nurse in a clinicAlbidisappeared on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020 from the house where the couple lived with their two children.
In the early morning, the husband alerted the gendarmes, saying that she had gone out at the end of the evening walking their dogs and that he had not seen her again. Since then, investigators have conducted extensive searches to try to find the body.
In announcing the indictment, the Toulouse prosecutor had depicted a “very conflicting context of separation” and underlined that suspect n°1 had “very great difficulties, emotional and material, in accepting (the) separation”.
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He should have buried the body
May 12, Cedric Jubillar was confronted with a former detainee, who occupied a cell next to his, in the Seysses isolation ward.
This prisoner, released in the fall, had declared to the investigators that he had obtained a confession from the husband, who would have attributed to him in particular having buried the corpse of his wife near a farm, about a kilometer from Cagnac-les-Mines.
These declarations had authorized the placement in police custody of the new company of Cédric Jubillar, released without indictment, as well as important excavations authorized by specialized units of the army.
“We work a bit like an evidence system from the Old Regime, at the time when four hearsays were worth proof”, recently lamented Emmanuelle Franck, another defense lawyer.
Still hoping to discover a useful clue to the investigation, friends of Delphine Jubillard again organized a search on Monday, as they do regularly around Cagnac-les-Mines, in vain.