While the Court of Cassation rejected at the beginning of April the request of Cédric Jubillar's lawyers to challenge the two investigating judges, the investigations into the disappearance of Delphine Jubillar were able to resume, a month after having been suspended. New excavations were launched this Thursday, April 18 in Cagnac-les-Mines, in Tarn.
These investigations are currently taking place not far from the couple's house, where the 33-year-old nurse, who disappeared on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, lived.
Indications from a clairvoyant
Investigators are currently focusing on a place called
“La Soulié
”, specifies BFMTV, adding that this operation would have been ordered after indications given by a clairvoyant. Around a hundred gendarmes, accompanied by dogs trained to detect missing people, are carrying out searches
“on land which has been reported (to investigators), as part of the additional information”
ordered on January 18 by the Toulouse Court of Appeal, a source close to the case told AFP.
In this case without a body, no confession, no witness, no crime scene, Cédric Jubillar, the husband of Delphine Jubillar, 33 years old at the time of her disappearance, is the main suspect and proclaims his innocence. Indicted in June 2021, he has since been held in solitary confinement at the Seysses detention center, near Toulouse. For almost three years, his lawyers have been multiplying appeals, requests for release or appeals to the Court of Cassation.
Recently, they questioned the impartiality of the magistrates in charge of the investigation and asked that they be removed from the case, when they had just requested the referral of Cédric Jubillar to the Tarn assize court, for be judged there.
So far, all requests for release have been rejected by the investigating chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal, which considered that the file contained serious and consistent evidence accusing Cédric Jubillar.