A new request for the release of Cédric Jubillar, whose wife disappeared more than a year ago in the Tarn, has been rejected, AFP learned Thursday, February 24 from the Toulouse prosecutor's office.
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The judge considered his continued detention justified in view of the evidence collected by the investigators, according to the same source.
The lawyers for the husband of Delphine Jubillar, who disappeared from the family home on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, had filed this new request for release on February 16.
Suspected of the murder of his wife and held in solitary confinement since his indictment in June 2021, the 34-year-old plasterer claims that he is innocent and that he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
In his decision rendered on Tuesday, the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD) followed the public prosecutor, who had requested continued detention.
Solicited by AFP, the lawyers of Cédric Jubillar did not react.
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On February 11, during a summons from their client before the investigating judges, they announced that they would file requests for release, and would appeal the rejections, as long as Cédric Jubillar was in the remand center. of Seysses, near Toulouse.
That day, the lawyers denounced a "
losing
" charge and the emptiness of the file.
Me Alexandre Martin even made fun of the gendarmes in charge of the investigation, believing that they were "
playing Cluedo
".
Several other requests for release have been systematically rejected.