He had been in the crosshairs of investigators from the first hour.
From his phone call to the gendarmerie of Cagnac-les-Mines (Tarn), Wednesday, December 16, at the end of the night, to report the disappearance of his wife, Cédric Jubillar, 33, placed in police custody for six months more late, Wednesday, June 16, indeed appears as the main potential suspect.
Nothing suprising.
Apart from her son, little Louis, 6, Delphine's husband is the last known person to have known her.
They spent the early evening together at their home in Cagnac in the presence of their two children.
Then Cédric would have gone to bed, leaving his son and Delphine to watch the M 6 program, "France has an incredible talent".
A first day under the pressure of the investigation
What happened next ?
Arrived on site at the family home on rue Yves-Montand from 5:30 am, the gendarmes want to hear Cédric Jubillar's testimony without delay.
By the time her mother came home to take care of the two children, Louis and her little sister Elyah (then 18 months old), Delphine's husband then spent the entire morning of December 16 under the fire of questions. .
The soldiers then act within the framework of an open flagrance investigation for "worrying disappearance" by the prosecutor's office of Albi.
They seek to understand the family context and especially the precise course of the night.
Watching for a loophole or contradictions in the husband's speech.
Without necessarily being convincing on all points, his explanations at least have the merit of consistency.
Delphine and Cédric at their wedding in 2013. DR
At the beginning of the afternoon, direction Castres, sub-prefecture of Tarn, under the supervision of the gendarmes of the Albi research brigade. His wife has been missing for a dozen hours. Here he is already subjected to an extremely advanced expertise in the office of a forensic pathologist. Cédric Jubillar is laid bare. Literally. No detail of his anatomy is overlooked. Green eyes, bald head, very thin and modest in size, 1m65, the man weighs less than 60 kg. Special attention is paid to her nails and irregularities in her skin. But nothing abnormal would have jumped out in the eyes of the expert.
Back in the premises of the gendarmerie in Albi, he then assists for several hours with the analysis of his phone.
Exhausted, hungry, Cédric Jubillar is escorted back to his parents' home at the end of the evening in Carmaux, about fifteen kilometers north of Albi.
His house in Cagnac is now forbidden to him.
It's the end of the first day of life without Delphine.
“I am dejected.
Everyone says it's me ”
On December 18, a first call for witnesses was launched to try to find Albi's 33-year-old nurse.
The description is quite summary.
"She is dressed in a white hooded jacket without any particular inscription," specifies the gendarmerie.
1m68, slim, long brown hair ”.
Local media are starting to take an interest in the case.
A few days after Delphine's disappearance, a first call for witnesses will be launched.
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On December 23, a citizen fight supervised by the gendarmerie brought together 1,800 volunteers.
Including Cédric Jubillar, present in the morning, but not in the afternoon.
A few days earlier, he still agreed to respond informally to a few journalists.
“I am dejected.
Everyone says it's me and everyone is talking about the Daval affair (
Editor's note: the murder of Alexia Daval, killed by her husband Jonathann in 2017
), ”he complained after explaining that his couple was well in the process of separation and that the request came from his wife.
He is now determined to flee the microphones and cameras.
On the other hand, he is obliged to respond to the requests of the gendarmes who require his presence for a search of his home on December 24.
Heaps of clothes, including those for children, and various items are seized, including Delphine's old midnight blue Peugeot 207.
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Same thing, in early January, when experts from the National Gendarmerie Criminal Research Institute (IRCGN) inspect the couple's pavilion and garden using ground penetrating radar, a tool that can detect cavities in the ground or in the walls, and Bluestar, a product that reveals traces of blood invisible to the naked eye.
These analyzes do not bring to light anything abnormal.
Life before or almost
At the end of January. After six weeks of living on top of each other in his parents' small apartment in Carmaux, Cédric is allowed to return to his home with his two children. The memory of Delphine is omnipresent, but you have to face the contingencies of everyday life. Between the meals to prepare, the little ones' baths and busy working days. Thanks to the help of a family friend, he has just been hired by an Albigensian company. It is a six-month fixed-term contract as a drywall painter, which runs until the end of July, with a monthly salary of around 1,500 euros.
When Cédric renews the thread of his life before and meets friends and acquaintances again, some speak of rain and good weather.
Others, more enterprising, dare to ask him if he killed his wife.
"Cedric would reply with a boast:" Well yes, it's me ... Obviously it's me!
», Tells us one of his friends.
But in such a way that we understood exactly the opposite… ”From Cédric Jubillar pure juice, playful and provocative.
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When we meet her at the end of February, her mother, Nadine, tells us that her son has assured her, "eye to eye" that he had nothing to do with his wife's disappearance.
But what else can she say?
“Anyway, Cedric is not smart enough to commit such a perfect crime,” reassures another member of his family.
"The most famous guy from Tarn"
Cédric Jubillar learns to live with his new notoriety.
Rather well elsewhere.
"I have become the most famous guy in Tarn," he sometimes laughs.
On his phone and in his mailbox, he receives many messages and letters relating to the case.
Letters of insults, death threats and sometimes also support, often signed by women, young or old.
"Crime always attracts", slips one of his relatives in the tone of black humor.
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In the spring, he receives a letter from a man who compares him to Jacques Viguier, this Toulouse university professor for a long time suspected of having made his wife disappear before being acquitted - twice - at the assizes at the end of the 2000s. Cedric reads and doesn't flinch. And then one day, around mid-March, he discovers a strange envelope addressed to Delphine Aussaguel, his wife's maiden name.
The mail is from Jehovah's Witnesses.
This is an invitation to participate in the annual commemoration of the sacrifice of Jesus, scheduled for March 27 in the form of video conference.
However, Cédric does not know anything about a link, even an old one, between Delphine and this very controversial religious movement.
One thing is certain, her father, Yves Aussaguel, who died in 2000, was indeed one of Jehovah's Witnesses within the association of Gaillac, the neighboring town of Albi where Delphine grew up.
Cédric sends the letter to the investigators without delay.
But for the latter, the underlying hypothesis of a possible sectarian drift of Delphine Jubillar does not stick.
The victim status
On April 30, the eve of a public holiday, Cédric has an appointment with his lawyer, Me Jean-Baptiste Alary, who is also the president of Albi.
Direction the criminal pole of the Toulouse judicial court where the two men are expected by the investigating judges in charge of the case, Audrey Assemat and Coralyne Chartier.
The hearing is, a priori, only a formality.
It should make it possible to ratify the civil party status of Cédric Jubillar.
One way of recognizing his position as a victim at this point in the investigation.
Arriving in Toulouse, Me Jean-Baptiste Alary and his client have in fact only one fear: to discover a swarm of microphones and cameras near the court.
But the holding of the hearing did not leak.
It will not be revealed by Le Parisien and La Dépêche du Midi until mid-afternoon.
Enough to upset Cédric: he would have liked to announce the news himself.
The next day, he does not resist and splits a message on his Facebook account in the form of a snub.
“Indeed I was auditioned.
So now the curious… you know what… go and make your fictitious life somewhere else and leave me alone… Thank you… ”
"The gendarmes have nothing against anyone"
After this hearing, the horizon begins to emerge for Cédric Jubillar. On all the plans. From what he understands, the judicial investigation seems to have stalled. "The gendarmes have dug in all directions, but they have nothing against anyone," he told us one evening, after his lawyer took note of the file sent by the judges.
As for the social inquiry which still darkened his morale a few weeks earlier, it no longer bothers him.
At the beginning of the spring, he had indeed received several visits from social workers responsible for assessing the living conditions of the children, Louis and Elyah.
The latter had then formulated various criticisms on the interior of the house: the absence of a guardrail on the balcony which adjoins the parental bedroom, the lack of toys available to little Elyah or the nudity of the walls of the bedrooms. children's rooms.
The unfinished house of the Jubillar couple in Cagnac-les-Mines.
LP / Olivier Lejeune
Trips in the eyes of the young dad who has the feeling of doing his best in such a special context.
Eventually, the fear that his son and daughter would be taken away from him and placed in foster care eventually subsided.
"Why shouldn't he have the right to start a new life?"
A semblance of balance settles even in his private life.
Some weekends, he entrusts his two children to his mother or to Delphine's older sister, with whom relations are fresh but courteous.
He then took the opportunity to escape the Tarn with Séverine.
About ten years older than him, she denies being his new girlfriend but appears from time to time by his side.
Notably on May 16, during a search operation organized in Cagnac by a circle of Delphine's friends.
Then at the beginning of June, on a photo that Cédric chooses as the profile picture of his Facebook account.
An unbearable provocation in the eyes of the nurse's friends.
“After all, his couple was in the process of separation before the disappearance of Delphine, replies a relative of Cédric.
Why wouldn't he have the right to start a new life?
"
Cédric Jubillar with his son during the march for Delphine organized on June 12 in Albi.
AFP / Fred Scheiber
The weekly Le Nouveau Détective displays this photo on the front page in its edition of June 9 and publishes the anonymous testimony of a young woman who would have had a virtual sentimental affair with Cédric this winter.
In retaliation, Cédric Jubillar discloses on Facebook some intimate photos of this person and reveals his identity.
"If she wants to play with me, we'll play ... but in the big leagues," he explains to us on Saturday, June 12, on the sidelines of the white march organized by Delphine's nursing colleagues.
Since this episode, Facebook has deleted his account.
"I am banned from social networks ... like Donald Trump," he says, stroking his completely shaved head.
Contacted, Facebook France did not wish to give further explanations.
Monday morning, Cédric begins a new project at a private individual outside Albi. This is where the gendarmes decided to arrest him at midday on Wednesday. Six months to the day after the disappearance of his wife.