This Tuesday, the investigating chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal examined the appeal for the renewal of the warrant of custody of Cédric Jubillar, in pre-trial detention for more than one year for the murder of his wife.
Before the camera was pronounced, the Tarn plasterer was able to glimpse his companion, Séverine, who had come to support him.
At the end of the hearing, Jubillar's lawyers insisted that the file remained empty, recalling that freedom was the rule.
Once again since his placement in pre-trial detention on June 18, 2021 for the murder of his wife, Delphine, Cédric Jubillar was on Tuesday before the investigating chamber of the Toulouse Court of Appeal to request his release.
Something more unusual, this new hearing allowed him to see for a few minutes the one who shared his life before his incarceration.
“He was happy, he was surprised, he didn't expect it at all.
He told me I love you, ”says Séverine, his companion who had not seen him for a year and his placement in pre-trial detention.
They were able to exchange a few words from a distance, he sent her kisses from afar just before the hearing went in camera.
She found him tired.
"If he needs me, I'm here," says Séverine, his friend
“I said to myself that I was going to come and see him, maybe it will perk him up a bit.
He hasn't seen a familiar face for a year, hasn't heard from his children.
I'm the only one who came to see him.
I told him that I would support him, I respect the presumption of innocence in fact, ”says the forties who saw her life turned upside down following her meeting with the man who is the number 1 suspect in the disappearance of Delphine Jubillar, in the night of December 15 to 16, 2020 in Cagnac-les-Mines.
Last December, Séverine had been placed in police custody, the investigators wanting to know if her companion had been able to entrust her with things, in particular where the remains of the nurse could be.
A suspicion born of the confessions that Cédric Jubillar allegedly made to a fellow prisoner, a man named “Marco”.
On his release from detention, he had contacted Séverine and during a meeting had asked her if she knew where the body was, as Cédric implied.
“This guy is not trustworthy.
Cédric has never spoken in a year, he is not going to speak to someone he does not know, ”she decides.
But since this police custody which "dried" her, she has "taken a step back".
“If he needs me, I'm here.
Then I have to move away, I protect myself.
On my daily life, it had a big impact, my life will not be the same now.
I manage, we do as we can, ”she explains.
She continues to talk to him all the same and received a letter again last weekend.
Today, Séverine does not think “he will be released” and imagines that the justice system will continue to keep him in detention “time to do research”.
One phone turned off, several explanations
On the ground, at the beginning of the week, the gendarmes are indeed once again hard at work trying to find the body of the young nurse and clues which could confirm the thesis of the accusation.
“Every time we plead the request for release, we are told that we are doing research.
This research can be done even when Cédric Jubillar is outside, we can justify an address, far from Cagnac-les-Mines.
There are others, in other cases, who have regained their freedom, ”reacted Alexandre Martin, one of the advisers of the 34-year-old plasterer.
But for the lawyers for the civil party, the file already contains enough elements to justify his continued detention.
The analyzes of Cédric Jubillar's phone the night of the disappearance provide some of them according to Laurent Boguet, who represents the interests of the couple's children.
Experts have shown that this cell phone had been turned off between 10:08 p.m., before little Louis went to bed, and 3:53 a.m., when the plasterer reactivated it to join Delphine's friends and then alert the gendarmerie.
The latter indicated that he had put it on charge and in airplane mode, so that it could ring for the alarm clock.
But for Laurent Boguet this version does not stick.
According to the Toulouse lawyer, Cédric Jubillar did turn off his phone voluntarily, "which is an unusual use for him".
And if he turned it off before the moment when he could have attacked his wife, “it is because we can fear premeditation”, suspects the lawyer.
The specter of miscarriage of justice
"I don't know if they take us for fools, but they are explaining to us that this man at 10:08 p.m. voluntarily turned off his phone because he already knew that at 11 p.m. he was going to surprise his wife in discussion with her lover, he knew at 10:08 p.m., 50 minutes before, that he was going to freak out, that he was going to strike Delphine, that he was going to kill her.
Who are we laughing at ?
And he's not being prosecuted for murder, he's being prosecuted for murder.
There is no consistency in the accusation ”, lamented at the end of the hearing Jean-Baptiste Alary, one of the three lawyers for Cédric Jubillar.
For the defenders of the plasterer, the file remains “empty”.
"It's a justice that ends up frightening, it's the justice that we dread for ourselves and for our loved ones, the justice that is stubborn, that analyzes all the elements as being systematically incriminating, leaves to contradict oneself, to lie.
We have known for a year that it can only lead to disaster, a miscarriage of justice, ”added his colleague Emmanuelle Franck.
The Advocate General requested that the suspect be kept in detention.
The judgment of the Court of Appeal was reserved for Monday July 4.
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