why all eyes are on the husband after his disappearance

The disturbing disappearance of Delphine Jubillar is under investigation. If her husband is not implicated, he nevertheless attracts suspicion from social networks. Explanations.

On Wednesday 23 December 2020, the investigation into the disturbing disappearance of Delphine Jubillar took a criminal turn. The public prosecutor of Toulouse has just announced, in a press release, the opening of a judicial investigation for chiefs "arbitrary kidnapping, detention or forcible confinement for more than seven days", Actu.fr announcement.

Delphine Jubillar is a 33-year-old nurse who, on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, is said to have left her home with her dogs, wearing a white down jacket, with her mobile phone but without her papers. The dogs came back, not her. It was her husband, Cédric Jubillar, who sounded the alert on the morning of December 16. Since then, no news, and even the beatings of this Wednesday, December 23, which mobilized thousands of volunteers, did not allow to find any direct traces of the disappeared one. But even before this beaten, on the networks, the accusations began to rain on Cédric Jubillar, her husband, who said he was very affected by these words. Where do these accusations come from?

Statements from Delphine Jubillar's family

No hypothesis is currently favored by Albi's prosecutor. Yet since the news of her disappearance, the husband has been singled out as likely guilty by thousands of Facebook comments and tweets. Various elements explain the mass publication of these messages. If the networks think of the worst, it is first because part of Delphine Jubillar's entourage believes that she could not leave the home on her own, leaving behind her young children of 18 months and 6 years old.

In addition, in La Dépêche, the uncle of the deceased recounts the couple's difficulties. He describes the husband, Cédric Jubillar, as a somewhat marginal man, "quite negative in the end", who tends to verbally demean his wife. However, he thinks his niece is alive and explains: "She had to leave home in a moment of despair and very fed up and today she no longer knows how to turn back."

Violence against women, a high profile subject

Another element of explanation, this case arises in a particular context, where violence against women and feminicides make the headlines. Starting with this very significant case: this Wednesday, December 23, 2020, in parallel with the beaten, we learned of the death of three gendarmes during an intervention for domestic violence in the Puy-de-Dôme. Jonathann Daval's trial, which was held last November, is also still in people's minds, especially as the parents of the victim have just asked for financial compensation from their ex-son-in-law.

We remember that Daval, convicted of the murder of his companion, Alexia Fouillot, presented himself in mourning to the media following his disappearance, which he himself had reported. During the trial, Alexia's parents considered that she had intended to leave her husband, which would have triggered his action. However, according to RTL, the couple Delphine-Cédric Jubillar was in the process of divorce and the young woman wanted to leave the family home. What to encourage Internet users to draw a parallel: Tuesday, December 22, the name "Daval" was in top trend on Twitter France, attached to that of the husband of the missing.

Alarming statistics

If the family of the disappeared remains very careful and hopes that we will find Delphine alive, on the general public side, we know some worrying data. Today, the population is better informed about the mechanisms of violence against women, and gradually understands that feminicides often occur when a woman expresses her desire to leave her partner.

In a long survey published in 2017, Liberation interviewed Karen Sadlier, professor in clinical psychology specializing in domestic violence. She explained that at that time, "the man sees the victim in his autonomy, he realizes that she is in the process of emancipating herself, of escaping him. He can also have fantasies of jealousy, wonders what she is going to do while he is not there… All the elements are there for a passage to the act. " In many cases, victims of femicide have also filed complaints of violence, which is not the case with the Jubillar couple.
As the authorities have recalled again today, Cédric Jubillar is not implicated in the disappearance of Delphine.

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