Delphine Jubillar, a 33-year-old nurse from Tarn, has been missing since December 16 and has not given any sign of life since.

On Wednesday, new searches were carried out at his home after an initial search on December 24.

Her husband was also summoned by the gendarmerie.

For three weeks Delphine Jubillar, this 33-year-old nurse from Tarn has not given any sign of life.

This mother left her home on December 16 and despite research, the investigation seems to be slipping.

This Wednesday, her home was searched again and her husband "summoned" by the gendarmes as part of this search.

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Husband's presence required

Since Wednesday morning, experts from the national gendarmerie have arrived from Pointoise with high-tech equipment and have taken over.

They focused on the couple's house and for that, they had invited the husband Cédric Jubillard.

It was not a hearing but a search, for which his presence as owner was required. 

"There is research inside the house (of the couple, in Cagnac-les-Mines), my client was summoned by the gendarmerie but it is not to be auditioned" as part of a guard on sight, said earlier Me Jean-Baptiste Alary, who defends the husband of the missing nurse.

"From the moment the gendarmes are in the house and are carrying out investigations, it is logical that the owner is present. If there was a custody, I would have been informed. A priori, one cannot imagine whether it is in police custody, "added the lawyer.

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For more than eight hours, the gendarmes searched the home, even using a radar capable of probing the density of the walls and floors, in search of a possible cache where the body would have been hidden.

Soldiers were also observed, opening every manhole cover to descend in search of clues.

A search had already taken place on December 24 in the house under the authority of a Toulouse examining magistrate, in the presence of the husband.

But "no interesting discovery was made," said the deputy prosecutor of Toulouse, Alix Cabot-Chaumeton.

The house was then placed under seal.

The privileged criminal track

The criminal track is now privileged in this case, after the opening of a judicial investigation for "arrest, kidnapping, detention or sequestration".

"Nothing indicates" that the disappearance of this 33-year-old mother, in the process of divorce, Delphine Jubillar, "could have been voluntary", had indicated on December 23 the Toulouse prosecutor Dominique Alzeari, after a day of beating citizen supervised by the gendarmerie and having gathered more than a thousand volunteers.

Initially opened for "worrying disappearance" by the Albi public prosecutor's office, the investigation is now in the hands of two Toulouse investigating judges "in view of the importance and complexity of the case".

The prosecution has so far refused to comment on the result of this new research.