The Toulouse Court of Appeal ruled this Thursday in favor of resuming investigations in the Jubillar affair.
The public prosecutor's office had requested additional information in this case where Cédric Jubillar is accused of having made his wife disappear.
Faced with a new element, the content of which it did not wish to reveal, the Toulouse public prosecutor's office requested in mid-January additional information, that is to say a resumption of the judicial investigation into the open file. following the disappearance of Delphine Jubillar at the end of 2020. According to the regional daily La Dépêche du Midi, this new element is the discovery of a telephone exchange between an inmate and his mother discussing the affair.
In the conversation placed under surveillance, the inmate incarcerated at the central prison of Lannemezan (Hautes-Pyrénées) for attempted murder would have mentioned the first names of three people, at least two of whom appear in the Jubillar file.
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“Additional information is procedurally required from the moment the investigating judges are removed from the case due to the indictment order” of Cédric Jubillar, Franck Rastoul explained to AFP in January, then attorney general of Toulouse who has now taken on new functions.
“Check all leads”
On November 21, two investigating judges from Toulouse, in fact, issued this order and referred to court Cédric Jubillar, a 36-year-old painter and plasterer, accused of the murder of Delphine, a nurse from a clinic in Albi aged 33 years old at the time of his disappearance in December 2020.
The accused's lawyers immediately appealed the order but the hearing before the investigating chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal, which was to examine this appeal on January 18, was ultimately devoted solely to the request for additional information.
This is “in no way the expression of a deficiency in the investigation, it is a procedural obligation at this stage”, insisted Mr. Rastoul, adding that “this is part of the logic which has prevailed in this case from the beginning and which consists of checking all the leads.”
Furthermore, another man would have contacted the courts to offer new testimony.
“If a man says that he has revelations to make, let us listen to him, let us hear him and we will see what he has to say and if it is useful for the manifestation of the truth,” declared in this regard Me Jean-Baptiste Alary, one of Cédric Jubillar's three lawyers, during the hearing of the investigating chamber.
Cédric Jubillar denies any responsibility
If the request for additional information is granted on Thursday, the defense will “obviously” see it as a positive point, Me Alary told AFP on Wednesday.
“We have been arguing for two and a half years now that Cédric Jubillar has been indicted that the file is empty, or at the very least insufficient,” he said.
“From the moment we have a file in which investigations are still useful for revealing the truth, this means that the file has not allowed the truth to be revealed in its current state,” said Me Alary, judging It is therefore logical to resume investigations.
If there is additional information, it is therefore the prospect of a trial previously envisaged at the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025, which will also fade away.
In this case without a body, no confession, no witness, no crime scene, Cédric Jubillar, incarcerated since June 2021, denies any responsibility.
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Delphine Jubillar disappeared from her house in Cagnac-les-Mines (Tarn), where the couple lived with their 18-month-old daughter and their six-year-old son, on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, in the middle of a curfew. to the Covid-19 pandemic.
At the time, the couple was going through a divorce.
Before the disappearance, Cédric Jubillar had made comments that had offended members of his family: "I'm going to kill her, I'm going to bury her and no one will find her... If Delphine leaves me one day...", according to the act of 'charge.