INFO BFMTV. The investigating chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal rendered its decision this Thursday, February 8, on the request for additional information made by the public prosecutor’s office last January.
Four months after the end of the investigation into the disappearance of Delphine Jubillar, investigations will resume. In mid-January, while Cédric Jubillar was heading straight to the criminal court for the murder of his partner, the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office requested additional information, intrigued by three new elements, a telephone conversation from a former fellow inmate, the testimony of a man and that of a medium.
It’s done, this Thursday, January 8. The investigating chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal has decided to follow these requisitions, BFMTV learned from Cédric Jubillar’s lawyer, therefore paving the way in the coming weeks for new hearings. They should be there by April.
“It’s a decision which is in line with what we have been saying from the start that we are heading towards a legal disaster,” laments on BFMTV Me Emmanuelle Franck, one of Cédric Jubillar’s lawyers.
This decision follows the hearing of the investigating chamber of the Court of Appeal of Toulouse, on January 18. Initially planned to examine the appeal, made by Cédric Jubillar’s lawyers, on the order of his referral to the assizes, it was finally devoted to the request for additional information, filed by the general prosecutor’s office.
No body, confession or crime scene
Cédric Jubillar, a 36-year-old painter and plasterer, is indicted in connection with the disappearance of his partner, Delphine Jubilla. This 33-year-old nurse disappeared from his house in Cagnac-les-Mines (Tarn), where she lives with her husband and their two children, on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020. At that time, the couple was divorcing. Put under investigation for “aggravated murder”in this case violent homicide by spouse, Cédric Jubillar has been incarcerated, in pre-trial detention at the Seysses remand center, near Toulouse, since June 18, 2021.
Despite the absence of a body, confession, witness or crime scene, justice closed the investigation, mid-October 2023, and signed the indictment order for Cédric Jubillar, referred to the Tarn Assize Court. But the lawyers of the painter-plasterer, who has always proclaimed his innocence, immediately appealed this decision. An appeal which should therefore be examined on January 18.
But on January 12, the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office requested additional information, intrigued by two new elements, which appeared after the referral to the assizes.
Elements after the investigation was closed
First, a recorded telephone exchange between a 33-year-old inmate, who was incarcerated in the same prison as Cédric Jubillar, and his mother, on November 22. The latter tells him that the husband Cédric Jubillar should be judged for the murder of his wife.
– “But there is no evidence, no proof… And Sofiane, and Sébastien and Mathieu, they don’t know them!”, the detainee is surprised, as a source close to the case confirmed to BFMTV.
– “Ah! if they knew…”, replies the mother with a slight grin.
According to information from BFMTV, two people – Sofiane and Sébastien – to whom the detainee refers are first names known in the file. One of them was also suspected for a time of having lent his vehicle to Cédric Jubillar to move his wife’s body. Due to a lack of incriminating evidence, the trail was completely closed. The prosecution wants the detainee in question and his mother to be heard by investigators.
Furthermore, a man from the region contacted the gendarmes several times, explaining that he had information on the Jubillar affair. He mentions the disappearance of an excavator on a construction site near the couple’s home in Cagnac-les-Mines. Finally, it is the testimony of a medium who intrigues the justice system. The latter claims to have information on the location where the body of Delphine Jubillar could be found. Witnesses that the public prosecutor’s office wants to hear.