For months, this man with a cap screwed on his head has regularly made the headlines. But to go beyond the sometimes unflattering image, Maître Alexandre Martin, one of his three lawyers, traces the childhood of Cédric Jubillar: “Cédric was born in 1987 in Béziers, to a father who did not recognize him and to an extremely young mother, since she was 16 at the time of birth. She was a college student. And you can imagine the difficulties that were his in taking care of this child, with the abandonment of the father. She will try to take care of it with her own mother. She is going to meet another boy, the relationship will fail. In the end, overwhelmed, this mother will be forced to accept the placement of her son in a foster home when he is three years old“.
Cédric stays in a home and with foster families until the age of six. Then he finds his mother Nadine. There will also be a stepfather (Olivier), and later a stepbrother. At one point, he meets his biological father but continues to say that he was born to an unknown father.
A childhood not easy anyway. An even more complicated adolescence. The family moves a lot: Saint-Juéry, Castelnaudary, La Capelle, between Hérault, Tarn, Aveyron, Tarn-et-Garonne. Relations with his mother are strained again. He returns to a home from 16 to 18 years old. He is described as a restless boy who does not commit a crime.
A difficult childhood, and early to work
And throughout this period, he trained in the craft of craftsmanship. First at the CFA de Montauban where he failed. Then from Albi, where he obtained his CAP as a painter with additional tiler. And as soon as he leaves training, he begins to work. And things are going more or less well, explains Maitre Jean-Baptiste Alary, lawyer for Cédric Jubillar: “He always worked until the moment when he decided to go out on his own as a self-employed entrepreneur. It didn’t work because it was in 2020, during the lockdown period. But then he found a job. The first boss, it didn’t go very well. The second went very well and his second employer was particularly satisfied with him“.
One after leaving school, the teenager meets Delphine. They are the same age (19 years) to within a few months. After a first relationship at a party, they see each other again and form a couple. They live together in Arthès, not far from Albi, then buy from Cagnac in 2013. Cédric repays the land loan. Delphine, that of the house that her husband is building. And in the village, if today the carelessness of the pavilion questions, what he did in the house impresses this Cagnacoise: “This guy, he is gifted with his hands, he made really beautiful things in this house, moldings and things that he made very original, well thought out, well calculated. He’s a talented craftsman, I think he could have gone a long way. He may have quit because he had financial problems, because to do the work, you need equipment. And the material, we don’t have it for free“.
A divisive personality
His children Louis and Elyah are born. Cédric is very involved in family life, especially when Delphine works nights. Even if it’s true, he can sometimes be a little harsh with Louis, concedes his lawyer Maitre Alary: “I know that we have been able to evoke inappropriate gestures. They might have had an education that I would call a little crude, but it wasn’t violence. There was nothing bad to speak of about it, but he was educated like that. He reproduces the way he was educated. It was a little bit rough“.
In Cagnac, Cédric is involved in the office within the association of parents of pupils. But there, too, the daddy cleaves. He gets involved and at the same time annoys, always tells this Cagnacoise who was in the school association: “Within the office, he was in charge of communication and he was very busy going to collect the prizes for the lottery. Mainly, he took care of the garage sale and took care of the barbecue but let’s say he was taking a little too long, he was smoking [du cannabis] in front of everybody. And as a result, when everything should have been ready, it was not. Suddenly, people went to eat at their homes. It’s part of his “I don’t care” personality. I do the things that I like, as it sings me. And if you’re not happy, it’s the same. And if we explain to him that no, he gets angry “.
But it is another image of Cédric that his new companion wants to give. Sévérine, who is the mother of a former friend of Cédric. The young woman who is ten years older than her describes an extremely funny and bigmouthed man. She gives the example of the last municipal elections in 2020. While the Covid-19 disrupts the ballot, he comes to vote with a red jumpsuit and a construction mask. He immortalizes everything with a selfie in front of the urn. The man smokes joints to relax: “Two to three a day sometimes. But he also smokes CBD, which is legal. “
She also describes a man who in the end doesn’t have many friends and prefers to be in his family cocoon. And he is a homebody, a fan of video games. According to Master Alexandre Martin, “Cedric has friends, but doesn’t really have any friends with whom he has spent a lot of time or talked a lot. Her life was work, children, home, Delphine. Between work and children, the weekend goes by quickly. For the rest, not too many friendly relations, no outings with friends. This is Cédric’s life. But obviously, Delphine had had enough of this life, which was perhaps not bright enough “.
A man “collapsed” according to his lawyer
For six months Cédric Jubillar has been in solitary confinement with very little contact from his relatives. A third request for release has been filed. According to Emmanuelle Franck, also lawyer for Cédric Jubillar, her client “has collapsed from the charges against him for six months. Devastated to be incarcerated. Collapsed by the slowness of justice, which made it wait six months before being questioned on the night of his wife’s disappearance. And collapsed from his prison conditions, because he has been in the isolation ward since last June“.
On France Bleu Occitanie, Emmanuelle Franck also tells that Cédric Jubillar “had confidence in justice, and he kept saying over and over: “Anyway, I’m innocent. But I understand that I’m suspect number 1 because I’m the husband, that’s pretty standard.” But today he’s collapsed“.