The Toulouse public prosecutor’s office confirmed on Thursday June 20, 2024 its desire to refer Cédric Jubillar to a criminal court for the alleged murder of his wife Delphine, who disappeared in December 2020 in Cagnac-les-Mines (Tarn).
The Toulouse public prosecutor’s office confirmed on Thursday June 20, 2024 its desire to refer Cédric Jubillar to the Assize Court for the alleged murder of his wife Delphine, who disappeared on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020 in Cagnac-les-Mines (Tarn). ). The Toulouse Court of Appeal will rule on this request for indictment on September 26.
According to Me Philippe Pressecq, lawyer for a civil party, the additional information ordered in February by the investigating chamber did not change the position of the prosecution. For its part, the general prosecutor’s office still considers that it has “serious and consistent elements” justifying a trial at the assizes for Cédric Jubillar.
The accused’s lawyers once again denounced “an investigation which was conducted in one direction from the start” against their client, seeking as proof the fact that the investigating judges wrote in their OMA that Mr. Jubillar was guilty.
“We demand that this judicial horror be removed, at the end of which investigating magistrates, who are supposed to be in charge and in defense, wrote that Mr. Cédric Jubillar was guilty of the murder of his wife, which is absolutely intolerable.“, said one of these lawyers, Alexandre Martin, adding: “we ask that at the very least this mention be removed from the file“.
Mr. Jubillar’s lawyers also indicated that they were going to submit a new request for the release of their client, who has been in detention since his indictment on June 18, 2021, three years almost to the day before the hearing. THURSDAY.
Cédric Jubillar, who has always proclaimed his innocence, was indicted in June 2021 for “intentional homicide of spouse” and placed in pre-trial detention. Despite extensive searches, the body of Delphine Jubillar was never found.
