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Illustration photo taken before Delphine Jubillar’s home on March 6, 2025, almost five years after the unanswered disappearance of the nurse and mother of two.
Justice – A testimony that could change things? The president of the Tarn Assize Court ordered on Monday, July 21, in the morning, the hearing of an ex-partner of Cédric Jubillar, who told her that he had killed his wife Delphine, who have disappeared since the end of 2020 on Monday, July 21,, which has been the attorney general of the Toulouse court of appeal to AFP.
Confirming information from Parisianthe Attorney General Nicolas Jacquet said that magistrate Hélène Ratinaud had asked the Toulouse gendarmerie section to drive this hearing before July 31, while Cédric Jubillar’s trial for murder opens on September 22 for four weeks in Albi.
“I have already killed once, don’t cheat on me and everything will be fine”would have said the painter-platform, incarcerated since his indictment in June 2021, to his ex-partner, according to remarks reported on July 11 to AFP by the latter’s lawyer, Me Joaquinito Maria Alogo de Obono.
“I am delighted by the decision of the president, this day, that my client is finally listened to”praised this Monday Me Alogo de Obono, “Who does not seek the light, had wanted justice to hear it”.
Cédric Jubillar’s “Confidences”
This decision, which does not question the opening of debates on September 22, was sent to all parties. It is based on article 283 of the code of criminal procedure which allows the president of the Assize Court “To discreetly order an additional act before the opening of the debates”reported the prosecutor Nicolas Jacquet, who specifies that this request is “Limited to the hearing of this young woman” Who said to Parisian received “Confidences” of the accused.
Cédric Jubillar, who has always denied any involvement in the disappearance of the nurse in December 2020, would have, according to court documents already affirmed to a co-discovered as well as to another ex-partner having killed his wife, of the qualified declarations of « provocations » by his lawyers.
“It is out of the question that we arrive at a trial with a lady who comes to tell anything, without there being any verification”said on July 11 to AFP Emmanuelle Franck, one of his advice, unreachable this Monday in the early afternoon.
She had estimated that this new testimony was, according to her, “Confirmation that this is an empty file”. “The more a dossier, the more you have the place for this kind of testimony”, She declared 10 days ago, while his colleague from the Defense, Jean-Baptiste Alary, recalled that in several times already, Cédric Jubillar would have made confidences to relatives, without these elements coming to establish anything.
In this case without a body, no confessions, no witness, a crime scene, Cédric Jubillar denies all responsibility and proclaims his innocence. His trial in Albi must last about a month.