More than three years after the disappearance of his wife Delphine, Cédric Jubilar continues to proclaim his innocence to investigators. He is accused of the murder of his wife whose body has never been found. What is his line of defense?
The mystery remains tenacious in the Tarn. Cédric Jubillar, imprisoned for “aggravated murder” of his partner Delphine since June 18, 2021, still denies his involvement. He remains the number one suspect in an investigation that is stalling for lack of indisputable evidence. Delphine Jubillar has been missing since the night of December 15 to 16, 2020. The husband’s requests for release continue to be rejected. His lawyers denounce a “contempted presumption of innocence”, because his detention takes place “in a file without elements or evidence against him.” Justice considers that “in this file, there is no classic evidence, neither DNA, nor fingerprint, nor technical element. But there is a set of clues put end to end, agglomerated to each other and interpreted in a general context which makes it possible to say that Cédric Jubillar appears as the one who is most likely to have committed the facts”. Cédric Jubillar has multiplied the auditions for almost three years. Here’s what came out of it.
Cédric Jubillar’s actions quickly challenged the investigators: on December 16, he reported the disappearance of his wife to the gendarmes, but then started playing a mobile game in the morning. A rather strange choice for a husband with no news for the judges. During his auditions, he talks very quickly about his partner in the past tense. This leads the police to believe that Cédric Jubillar “never really looked for his wife”. He has always denied his involvement in this disappearance. A clue was confronted to him: a frame of glasses of his wife found dislocated in their accommodation. An expert appointed by the instruction believes that the object was broken by an effort going “from the outside to the inside”. The calculated effort to break the glasses is equivalent to the kinetic energy “of a 5 kg mass projected at 21 km/h”. The suspect’s response? Delphine “may have dropped” her glasses. “She might have stepped on it, I don’t know. I didn’t hit her, I didn’t hurt Delphine, I’m innocent,” he said. Being myopic, it seems unlikely, in the eyes of the investigators, that Delphine went out at night without her glasses. An argument swept away by Cédric Jubillar: “She has already gone out many times without her glasses.”
Delphine Jubillar’s phone shows an activation at 6:52 a.m. on the night of her disappearance. Her husband claims that he did not know the code for this smartphone. The GPS indications indicate that the object in question did not move from the family home during the night. Moreover, during the 10 minutes preceding the unlocking of Delphine’s smartphone, her husband multiplied the calls to his wife, without answer. But when activating this phone, Cedric is no longer in action on his own phone. For the expertise, this activity “has necessarily been the result of a human activity”. “I’m sure I never had Delphine’s phone in my hands. As I told you, I didn’t do anything to her, I didn’t kill her” defends the ex-construction worker . His defense is considered fragile by the investigators, but his lawyers believe above all that no material evidence incriminates him in this case.