Will they help resolve a case that has been intriguing for more than three and a half years? This Thursday, new searches are being carried out by investigators in the village of Cagnac-les-Mines near Albi (Tarn), where Delphine Jubillar disappeared on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020.
Accompanied by dogs trained to detect missing people, around a hundred gendarmes are carrying out searches “on land which was reported as part of the additional information” ordered on January 18 by the Toulouse Court of Appeal, we learned from a source close to the investigation. This additional information was ordered in order to question a prisoner from the Lannemezan penitentiary center (Hautes-Pyrénées), who made suspicious comments about the Jubillar affair during a telephone conversation.
Cédric Jubillar’s cassation appeal dismissed
In this case without a body, no confession, no witness, no crime scene, Cédric Jubillar, the husband of Delphine Jubillar, 33 years old at the time of her disappearance, is the main suspect and proclaims his innocence. Indicted in June 2021, he has since been held in solitary confinement at the Seysses detention center, near Toulouse. For almost three years, his lawyers have been multiplying appeals, requests for release or appeals to the Court of Cassation.
Recently, they questioned the impartiality of the magistrates in charge of the investigation and asked that they be removed from the case, when they had just requested the referral of Cédric Jubillar to the Tarn assize court, for be judged there. So far, all requests for release have been rejected by the investigating chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal, which considered that the file contained serious and consistent evidence accusing Cédric Jubillar.