A thin layer of snow is deposited on the children's bicycle which lies lying down in front of the large house with its visible ocher concrete blocks.
Early this Wednesday morning, a dozen gendarmerie vehicles parked in front of this pavilion with black shutters in Cagnac-les-Mines (Tarn), from where Delphine Jubillar, a young nurse and mother of a family, vanished into the night from December 15th to 16th.
Several dozen gendarmes take over the house, for the third time in three weeks, this time accompanied by dogs from Gramat (Lot) known for their unbeatable flair.
In white overalls, technicians from the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) carefully scrutinize the house, whose rubble and waste piled up outside are reminiscent of a work in progress.
This not completely finished house is combed through, the walls and floors are scanned with geo-radar and the manhole covers near the house are raised.
A drone flies over the hill of the small mining town, whose soils have been exploited for several centuries for their coal.
At the same time, Cédric Jubillar, the husband of the young mother of the missing family, is asked to attend these new searches, confirms his lawyer.
“He called me around 8:40 am to tell me that he was summoned by the gendarmerie.
But it is neither an audition, nor a police custody.
This media frenzy is a storm in a glass of water, ”notes Me Jean-Baptise Alary.
Owner of the house, Delphine's husband is required to attend the excavations.
Cédric Jubillar “cornered” on social networks
Cédric Jubillar is willingly at the service of investigators, assures his lawyer.
"He agrees to be the subject of the attention of investigators, to appear for summons, that does not revolt him", analyzes the lawyer of the husband of the nurse who became a civil party on Tuesday, to "be able to follow the procedure ".
"It is not illogical in a worrying disappearance case, that we are interested in the last person who was in contact with the disappeared", notes Me Alary.
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Disappearance of Delphine: the criminal track is essential
Three weeks ago, Cédric Jubillar contacted the gendarmes of his town one morning: Delphine, the mother of his children, a girl and a little boy, aged 18 months and 6 years, disappeared during the night.
The nurse at a local clinic took only her coat and had to take the dogs out, says the divorcee.
But the two Shar-Peis returned home alone, he explains again.
Since Delphine is nowhere to be found.
On December 23, during a "citizen search", 1600 people combed the surroundings of this town perched on the heights of Albi.
“The mobilization of volunteers was remarkable, they came from the Tarn and other departments, notes one of the organizers of this beat.
This disappearance aroused the stir of the population.
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VIDEO. Missing Tarn: thousands of volunteers in the footsteps of Delphine Jubillar
An emotion that transpires on social networks where relatives shared in mid-December the wanted notices and calls for witnesses.
But the internet court has already found its culprit: it's Cédric Jubillar.
The 33-year-old is subjected to hundreds of comments that point to him as the murderer of his wife.
This is why he took up a bond, shortly before the holidays, with Me Jean-Baptiste Alary: “I received a cornered man, who is the subject of peremptory accusations on social networks and who wonders how react.
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"Whatever he says, it will be held against him"
If he remains silent in the face of media requests, it is also for this reason.
“Whatever he says, it will be held against him.
The investigators exploit all the assumptions, including that of the participation of the husband ”, estimates Me Alary.
When the Albigensian penalist sees in his client a man "perfectly integrated, married, father of a family and owner of his house, even if he is a little unstable professionally", some detect an almost marginal person "who smokes his cigarette during the beaten up. ".
At the head of his small building company, Cédric Jubillar has seen his business collapse in recent months.
Relatives of Delphine also notice that the thirty-something has excluded himself from the circle of friends.
A handful of them also approached a lawyer and became a civil party.
"This group of friends does not exclude any track, including that which leads to Cédric", notes with caution their advice, Me Philippe Pressecq.
Behind the town hall of Cagnac-les-Mines, shortly before 9 a.m., the small market sets up and the regulars greet each other.
All have seen, once again the gendarmes and the press invest the peaceful town of 2,600 inhabitants.
"The atmosphere is sad, everyone is looking at each other in the corner," notes this sixty-year-old who has lived in the town for 40 years.
Other residents also note the "mistrust" and "concern" that have settled in this village where yet "everyone knows each other more or less".
A deleterious climate which forced the town hall of Cagnac to set up two psychological listening cells on Monday. One of them in the primary school of the town, where Delphine Jubillar used to drop off her little boy. A few hundred meters from the school, his father, Cédric Jubillar, is still attending this Wednesday evening shortly after 7 p.m. the excavations of the house where he grew up.
