“Given the foreseeable duration of this trial and the hearing burden of the Tarn Assize Court, it was envisaged that it would open in Albi during September 2025” and for a potential duration of “four weeks”, explained in a press release the First President of the Court of Appeal of Toulouse Chantal Ferreira and the Attorney General of Toulouse Nicolas Jacquet.
Cédric Jubillar, a 37-year-old painter and plasterer, was indicted for murder and placed in detention on June 18, 2021.
His wife, Delphine Jubillar, nurse and mother of two children, disappeared on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, in the middle of a curfew linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, in Cagnac-les-mines (Tarn).
No irrefutable proof
In this case without a body, no confession, no witness, no crime scene, no irrefutable evidence. Investigators are convinced that Cédric Jubillar killed his wife, when she had just announced her intention to divorce.
Tuesday afternoon, at the end of this preparatory meeting organized at the Toulouse Court of Appeal, several lawyers in the case mentioned a trial that could begin at the end of September and end in mid-October in Albi.
“Extraordinary trial”
According to Me Alexandre Martin, one of Cédric Jubillar's three lawyers, such a duration can be explained by the fact that “it’s an extraordinary trial where everything is contested”.
“Many witnesses will be called, experts too, (…) as everything is discussed, it is a very detailed analysis that will have to be made of this file”he explained.
At the seats, “it's an oral procedure, the jurors do not have the file, so they will learn about it at the hearing, listening to all the speakers, so it is clear that there will be a lot of hearings to be organized so that the jurors are able to integrate all the elements (…) to ultimately render a decision”he added.
In this murder trial, “the prosecution will be supported by two attorneys general”underlined the press release from the court of appeal, specifying that it would be a magistrate from the general public prosecutor's office and a magistrate from the Toulouse public prosecutor's office.
“It is thereby a matter of securing the holding of the trial due to its duration and of associating with the accusation the Toulouse public prosecutor's office which followed the procedure throughout the judicial investigation”according to the press release.
The disappearance of Delphine Jubillar caused great excitement in France, a few days before Christmas and a few weeks after the conviction of Jonathann Daval for the murder of his wife in Haute-Saône, which he had long denied by taking on the role of the grieving husband. .
