Cédric Jubillar: this chilling exchange brought to light by a loved one, “the smell and the teeth that remain”

Eighteen months have passed since the disappearance of Delphine Jubillar, which occurred on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020 in Cagnac-les-Mines, but the case is far from having revealed all its secrets. In the columns of The Midi Dispatch, an acquaintance of the husband of the disappeared, Cédric Jubillar, came out of silence to recount the dismal conversation he would have had with the latter in 2019. At the time, Cédric Jubillar was working as a plasterer in his apartment. It was then that the two men became friends. “It happened by word of mouth. We were told that he was serious and that he was doing a good job, confides Florent (the first name has been changed), 39, to our colleagues. He usually came in the evening, after his day’s work, and worked a few hours in our apartment before returning home.”

One evening, Cédric lingered to share a beer with his new friend. “We drank beers and started talking about everything and nothing. At one point he asked us: how would you make a body disappear without leaving a trace? Amused by this strange question, Florent and his wife lent themselves to the game “joking“, and gave several hypotheses, such as burning the body of the victim. “Yes, but there is the smell. And the teeth that remain“, would then have underlined one of them. “We also talked about lacerating the body in the stomach and throwing it in the Tarn for the catfish to take care of it”, Florent remembers.

“I didn’t want it to sink him, or be involved in all this”

At the time, the conversation had not challenged the father of the family. But when he learned, in mid-2021, that Cédric Jubillar was suspected of having made the body of his wife disappear, this evening in 2019 suddenly came back to him. However, he has refrained from revealing its content until today. “I didn’t want it to sink him, or be involved in all this, he confides. (…) When we had this conversation he hadn’t referred to his wife or anyone else. And we never talked about it again. Besides at the time he seemed to be quite happy, he was proud to build his house – he showed us the pictures of the interior on his phone – and to soon have a second child“.

Indicted on June 18, 2021, Cédric Jubillar has been incarcerated for a year in the Seysses remand center, in Haute-Garonne. On June 13, despite the absence of concrete evidence against him, the Toulouse liberty and detention judge decided to extend his pre-trial detention by six months. For now, Cédric Jubillar remains presumed innocent.