Nine months after his indictment for the murder of his wife, Delphine, who disappeared on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020 in Cagnac-les-Mines, in the Tarn, Cédric Jubillar remains in prison. For the fourth time, the investigating chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal confirmed the rejection of his request for release.
The judges thus followed the general prosecutor’s office which had requested his continued detention. They did not retain the arguments of the lawyers of the 34-year-old plasterer, imprisoned since June 18, 2021, who had pleaded last Tuesday in his presence. At the end of the hearing, one of them, Alexandre Martin, had denounced “an instruction which skates, we go from media revelations to media revelations which ultimately reveal nothing”.
Since the beginning of their client’s pre-trial detention, the nurse’s husband’s defenders have been asking “that the presumption of innocence be consecrated”, the latter continuing to claim his innocence. With each new element, they try to defuse the clues put forward by the prosecution, whether it is the duvet, the alleged confidences to a fellow prisoner or even the biological traces found in the car of a friend of Cédric Jubillar.
Early exit for civil parties
The investigating judges ordered the continuation of the search to find the body of the young woman, with the help since last week of drones capable of detecting changes in the terrain and the decomposition of a body.
“It’s long but necessary. There are always these drones which also do research, it is important for children who are in search of the truth, they must be able to mourn, “reacted Tuesday Malika Chmani, the administrator’s lawyer. to this, appointed so that the couple’s children are represented in the proceedings. For her, the exit of the father of Louis and Elyah “is premature”, because “he does not tell the whole truth”.