On June 18, 2021, Cédric Jubillar, the husband of the Cagnac-les-Mines nurse who disappeared on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, was indicted for spousal homicide. Held in solitary confinement in the Toulouse-Seysses prison, he has been claiming his innocence for months. Why has he been behind bars for all these months, when no body has been found and no confession has been made?
Six months followed the disappearance of Delphine Jubillar in June 2021. After extensive research – using helicopters, divers, drones, citizen beats and search operations – in the weeks following her disappearance, the public prosecutor of Toulouse at the time, Dominique Alzeari, announced that the criminal track was now privileged. A declaration which was made after the interrogations of the parents-in-law of the thirty-something, and of her husband, with whom she was in divorce proceedings. His police custody ended, Cédric Jubillar was then indicted for aggravated murder and imprisoned in pre-trial detention.
The evolving and sometimes contradictory statements of the 34-year-old painter-plasterer have aroused the suspicions of the authorities, he who is the last to have seen Delphine Jubillar alive. From that moment, his lawyers regularly demanded the release of their client for lack of evidence, in vain. They ask this “that the presumption of innocence is consecrated“, adding that their client is living hell in prison.
However, each time, the liberty and detention judge rejected Cédric Jubillar’s request for release, considering that there are several “serious and concordant clues“allowing it to be said that the nurse was killed and that her husband participated in the murder. In September 2021, the Advocate General had defended a reading of the clues which, “placed end to end, interpreted within the framework of a context“, allow to say that Cédric Jubillar is “Imore likely to have committed the crime“. Moreover, his isolation allows the justice system not to be hampered in its complex investigative work. The new elements, the analysis of the broken glasses, the testimony of the couple’s son and the psychiatric expertise of the suspect number, fuel the decision to keep him behind bars.
the Cédric Jubillar’s term of deposit expires on June 18. He cannot therefore remain in pre-trial detention beyond without a debate before the judge of freedoms.
Cédric Jubillar remains presumed innocent of the charges against him until the final judgment of this case.