A trial is taking shape in the Jubillar affair. The Toulouse public prosecutor’s office requested in its final indictment the referral to court of Cédric Jubillar, indicted for the murder of his wife Delphine, who disappeared at the end of 2020.
Confirming information from the Dispatch from the Souththe public prosecutor in Toulouse Samuel Vuelta-Simon indicated Monday that the final indictment had been rendered, a judicial source specifying: “the prosecutor requests the referral of Cédric Jubillar to the Tarn assize court”.
Instruction completed mid-October
One of the lawyers for the civil parties, Me Laurent Nakache-Haarfi, also confirmed having received this indictment. “If the prosecution has taken this indictment, it is because all the elements constituting the offense are present to send it back to the Assize Court,” he said, without further details.
Following this final indictment, the investigating judges should soon issue an indictment order to effectively send Cédric Jubillar back to court once his appeal options have been exhausted. In mid-October, the parties were notified of the end of the investigation.
Cédric Jubillar proclaims his innocence
The file was opened following the disappearance of Delphine Jubillar, 33, a nurse in a clinic in Albi, on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, in the middle of a curfew linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. Her body has still not been found and her husband, a plasterer painter imprisoned since June 2021 who, from the start, has proclaimed his innocence, is the only suspect. At the time, the couple, who have two children, were divorcing.
The disappearance of the nurse caused a significant stir in France, shortly after the conviction of Jonathann Daval for the murder of his wife in Haute-Saône, which he had long denied while playing the role of the grieving husband.