VIDEO – New request for release from Cédric Jubillar: can he get out of prison?

Will he win the case? For the fourth time in six months, Cédric Jubillar has made a request for release. Justice, which has so far categorically refused to accede to the suspect’s request, must decide on Monday, January 11. This time, more than ever, his lawyers want to believe it. “He explained all the elements. We have serious hopes that this man will finally be released”, thus indicates to TF1 Me Alexandre Martin, in the video of the 8 p.m. at the top of this article.

“There are people who have admitted having participated in an offence, sometimes a serious offence, who are nevertheless under judicial control and are therefore free. Why not him, when he disputes the facts and there is no no evidence against him?, abounds Me Jean-Baptiste Alary, another of his lawyers.

To win this legal tussle, the lawyers of Cédric Jubillar insisted on the exculpatory elements of the file. They particularly pressed on the absence of a body, since we still do not know where Delphine is. They also denounced the hasty statements of the prosecutor after the arrest of the main suspect. For example, on the duvet of the couple. It wasn’t running in the washing machine when the police arrived the night Delphine disappeared. “The duvet is presented as a determining factor by the prosecutor. […] Today the demonstration is made that this duvet was on the sofa when the gendarmes arrived and that it will not be seized until December 17”, welcomed Alexandre Martin.

At the same time, the judges base themselves on the many incriminating elements in this case, the very ones who create “a bundle of serious and concordant clues“against the painter-plasterer. The inconsistencies in the statements of the main suspect are particularly highlighted. The testimony of the son of the couple Jubillar, who says he saw his parents arguing that evening, also plays a particularly important role. In addition, the magistrates had indicated that Cédric Jubillar knew that his wife had a “lover”, that he watched her, and that he showed himself “intrusive” sometimes “brutal and aggressive”. Furthermore, pre-trial detention is the “the only way to ensure the preservation of evidence or to prevent consultation with possible accomplices or co-authors”, underlines Céline Parisot, president of the Union of magistrates (USM). So many elements to justify a potential continued detention.

Note that Cédric Jubillar will not attend the hearing on Tuesday. He will remain in his cell in Seysses prison, still in solitary confinement.

Since the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, no one has heard from Delphine Jubillar. It was her husband Cédric Jubillar who reported her disappearance on December 16 at dawn. Six months later, this father of two children, aged 2 and 7, was indicted for “spouse murder”. He was remanded in custody on June 18, 2021. Cédric Jubillar has always disputed the charges against him.