The vast excavations undertaken on Monday January 17 to find the body of Delphine Jubillar, who had been missing for more than a year in the Tarn, were to receive support on Tuesday from a squadron of mobile gendarmes, in order to probe and comb an area close to the couple's house.
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the details of "an announced legal disaster"
The site, close to Cagnac-les-Mines and plunged into thick fog on Tuesday morning like the day before, was secured in order to keep onlookers and journalists interested in the development of this highly publicized affair, where the husband Cédric Jubillar is a figure of suspect number one, noted an AFP correspondent.
Several days of excavations
A team of soldiers from the Specialized Operational Searches (FOS) unit, called upon in this type of operation to search for buried or buried bodies, is also on site, as well as scientific experts from the Criminal Research Institute of the national gendarmerie (IRCGN), according to a source close to the investigation.
The excavations, carried out about a kilometer from the house of the disappeared, focus on the surroundings of a farm which burned down a few months ago, following the declarations of an inmate from a cell neighboring that of Cédric Jubillar, placed in solitary confinement in the Seysses remand center, near Toulouse.
This man told investigators from the gendarmerie's research section several weeks ago that the husband had told him that he had buried Delphine's body there, also according to a source close to the investigation.
Mobilizing hundreds of people, these excavations will last several days, even several weeks, according to a source from the gendarmerie.
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This hypothesis does not convince one of the lawyers of the relatives of the disappeared, Me Philippe Pressecq, for whom the painter plasterer "
sows false leads (...) from his prison
". However, he welcomes the resumption of research on places already searched before the husband's imprisonment on June 18. "
Because we must not forget that Cédric Jubillar remained free for six months after the disappearance of his wife, and it is not implausible to think that the body could have been moved
", he declared .
Delphine Jubillar, 33, who worked as a nurse in a clinic in Albi, disappeared on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020. It was her husband, Cédric, now 34, who alerted the gendarmes .
Indicted for murder, he claims to be innocent and multiplies the requests for release.
The last was rejected on Friday by the investigating chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal.
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