Delphine Jubillar, mother of two, has been missing since the night of December 15, 2020. Her husband, Cédric, is incarcerated as the main suspect. He always declared himself innocent. But what are his defenses?
[Mis à jour le 20 avril 2023 à 16h19] What happened to Delphine Jubillar? Since the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, this question has remained unanswered for justice. Her husband, Cédric, has been imprisoned since June 18, 2021. Since the start of the case, this man has always declared himself innocent. The investigation is close to completion, but no body or other possible clue has been discovered so far. The husband’s lawyers pleaded several times to obtain their client’s release, but this was always refused. For the floor, as related Point, “there is a set of clues placed end to end, agglomerated together and interpreted in a general context which makes it possible to say that Cédric Jubillar appears as the one who is most likely to have committed the facts” in this disappearance. After almost three years of hearings, here is the main information revealed by Cédric Jubillar.
Why is Cédric Jubillar considered the main suspect?
The actions of Cédric Jubillar quickly challenged the investigators: on December 16, he reported the disappearance of his wife to the gendarmes, but then began to play a mobile game in the morning. A rather strange choice for a husband with no news for the judges. During her auditions, described in Point, he talks very quickly about his partner in the past tense. This leads the police to believe that Cédric Jubillar “never really looked for his wife”. He has always denied his involvement in this disappearance. A clue was confronted to him: a frame of glasses of his wife found dislocated in their accommodation. An expert appointed by the instruction believes that the object was broken by an effort going “from the outside to the inside”. The calculated effort to break the glasses is equivalent to the kinetic energy “of a 5 kg mass projected at 21 km/h”. The suspect’s response? Delphine “may have dropped” her glasses. “She may have stepped on it, I don’t know. I didn’t hit her, I didn’t hurt Delphine, I’m innocent” he claims. Being myopic, it seems unlikely, in the eyes of the investigators, that Delphine went out at night without her glasses. An argument swept away by Cédric Jubillar: “She has already gone out many times without her glasses.”
Delphine Jubillar’s phone shows an activation at 6:52 a.m. on the night of her disappearance. Her husband claims that he did not know the code for this smartphone. The GPS indications indicate that the object in question did not move from the family home during the night. Moreover, during the 10 minutes preceding the unlocking of Delphine’s smartphone, her husband multiplied the calls to his wife, without answer. But when activating this phone, Cedric is no longer in action on his own phone. For the expertise, this activity “has necessarily been the result of a human activity”. “I’m sure I never had Delphine’s phone in my hands. As I told you, I didn’t do anything to her, I didn’t kill her” defends the ex-construction worker ; Quoted by The Independent. His defense is considered fragile by the investigators, but his lawyers believe above all that no material evidence incriminates him in this case.
Cédric Jubillar’s appointments with a psychologist
During his imprisonment, Cédric Jubillar met five times with a psychologist according to France info. This expert describes the suspect as a man “very little, even not destabilized or destabilized”. He continues: “he did not vary his position or his way of operating in the successive interviews. He did not show any mood swings. He does not leave anything to surprise. He concretes.” His discussions make it possible to collect the point of view of Cédric Jubillar on his relationship with his wife. He is described as “without particular sentimental affect” compared to Delphine Jubillar.
His demeanor was more enthusiastic when looking at Séverine, his last companion met during Delphine’s research. Cédric Jubillar would have been surprised and hurt by his wife’s request for divorce. He denies having been aware of his extra-marital relationship before his disappearance. He describes himself as slightly jealous. For the shrink, the idea of divorce may have reminded him of his difficult childhood. The number one suspect in this case did not know his father and was raised in a foster home. He would do with an “undigested” past, according to the expert, which “may suggest the possibility of a reversal from a passive position to an active-aggressive position”.