Europe 1 with AFP 07:03, February 11, 2022
Delphine Jubillar's husband is summoned this Friday to be questioned again, a week after the failure of extensive excavations undertaken near the village where the couple lived.
The nurse has still not been found by investigators and her disappearance remains a mystery as Cédric Jubillar continues to claim his innocence.
The husband of Delphine Jubillar is summoned this Friday before the two judges in charge of the investigation into the disappearance of the nurse, at the end of 2020, a week after the failure of extensive excavations undertaken near the village where the couple resided.
In detention since June 18, 2021, Cédric Jubillar continues to claim to be innocent.
His lawyers have called for his release on several occasions, but the courts believe that the suspicions concerning him are sufficiently well founded.
"This file remains a mystery, believes Alexandre Martin, one of Cédric Jubillar's lawyers. It is time for justice to respect the presumption of innocence and for Cédric Jubillar to be released".
Asked Wednesday about the Jubillar case, Toulouse prosecutor Samuel Vuelta Simon underlined the tireless mobilization of magistrates and investigators from the gendarmerie's research section.
"If we put the means, he said, it is because we have to find Delphine Jubillar, to verify the hypothesis that she was indeed killed, we have to find her body to offer her a burial, to return her to her parents, to her family so that they can bury her".
Active searches for more than three weeks
For three weeks, from January 17 to February 4, the gendarmes, supported by soldiers from the Specialized Operational Force (FOS of the 17th RGP of Montauban) combed a rugged perimeter of several hectares in the vicinity of Cagnac-les-Mines (Tarn ), not far from the Jubillar house.
Equipped with radars and metal detectors, they inspected the premises to verify the statements of a neighbor of Cédric Jubillar's cells.
Last week, the lawyer for a cousin of Delphine Jubillar, a civil party, echoed the despair of the nurse's family.
"Cédric Jubillar must confess to the murder of his wife, he declared. When you have a file that is starting to be relatively thick and which accumulates considerable material and psychological elements, that's the only thing that Cédric Jubillar should do if he was able to assume what he did," said Philippe Pressecq.
At the time of the disappearance, the couple was in the process of divorce, a separation at the initiative of the nurse that Cédric Jubillar had difficulty accepting, according to the investigators.