In Release, a complex portrait is made of Cédric Jubillar. He dwells in particular on the difficult childhood of the presumed culprit and the father he is for his son, Louis, the eldest of the siblings. In front of the psychiatric expert, the construction worker describes himself as a “failure of education” so that heblows have replaced words“. For those around the Jubillars, this description also applies to his way of raising his own son, assuring that he used corporal punishment. The person concerned denies beating his child and speaks instead of “flips” and “slaps”. He who was a beaten child assures us that his relationship with his children has nothing to do: “No big violence“.
In The Parisiandetails had been provided on his role as a father: his son is “never came to school with bruises or cockades or anything”, indicated the main suspect in the Jubillar case. The father, placed in solitary confinement in prison, however admitted to having the habit of raising his voice with his boy: “Of course yes, I yell (…), I was trying to scare my child. To prevent him from doing the same stupid thing to me again.” A friend of Delphine had meanwhile underlined her aggressive behavior, with her son as with those of others whom he could punish brutally, according to Release.
His relationship with his son is particularly crucial in the investigation because the little boy was a visual witness to the argument between his parents during Delphine Jubillar’s last evening at her house. “I remember they were pushing each other, I saw them, because in fact I had gotten out of bed, the door was open a little bit and I was watching (…) They were pushing each other with both arms, once dad and once mom” he confided during his last hearing in court. According to him, his mother also repeated several times “Stop“, without specifying whether it was an order or a plea.
Cédric Jubillar remains presumed innocent of the charges against him until the final judgment of this case.