Cédric Jubillar’s lawyers take legal action to challenge the investigating judges

Magistrates “partial” ? The lawyers of Cédric Jubillar, imprisoned for the alleged murder of his wife Delphine in 2020 in Tarn, launched two legal actions this week to challenge the investigating judges responsible for the investigation. “We no longer have confidence, we don’t want it to be the same judges who are seized,” insisted one of the lawyers, Alexander Martin.

Cédric Jubillar’s three counsel are scrambling against these two investigating magistrates because they wrote in November, in their indictment order, that “all the elements collected during the judicial investigation demonstrate that Cédric Jubillar is the author of the murder of his wife”. However, new elements have meanwhile emerged, notably requiring hearings, and the same court of appeal ordered on February 8 a resumption of the judicial investigation.

In this case without a body, no confession, no witness, no crime scene, Cédric Jubillar, a plaster painter now aged 36, denies any responsibility. Delphine Jubillar, then aged 33, disappeared from her house in Cagnac-les-Mines (Tarn), where the couple lived with their 18-month-old daughter and their six-year-old son, on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020 , in the middle of a curfew linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.