The trial of Cédric Jubillar, a Frenchman who confessed to the murder of his wife after more than five years of denials, was postponed on Tuesday, from September to 2027, after the confessions of the accused which relaunched the investigation.
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At the end of a meeting held at the Toulouse courthouse, in the presence of all parties, “the president decided (…) to order the postponement of the hearing”, reported the city’s court of appeal.
This postponement should make it possible to carry out “investigations and personality assessments, in view of Cédric Jubillar’s new position on the facts”, explained Laurent de Caunes, lawyer for the brothers and sister of the missing woman.
“As part of this referral, it can already be indicated that Mr. Jubillar’s appeal trial should be able to be held during the first half of 2027,” specified the Toulouse magistrates.
After five and a half years of proclaiming his innocence, Cédric Jubillar caused a real legal earthquake by recognizing, first on July 6 in a letter, then on July 15 in front of investigators, “being at the origin of the death of Delphine Aussaguel”, according to his lawyers Guy and Pierre Debuisson.
“She said something to me that made me freak out, I freaked out, I wanted her to shut up, I grabbed her by the neck and squeezed. I told him “shut up, shut up, I beg you, shut up!” “, he declared on July 15, according to the minutes of his statements of which AFP was aware.
“She fell limp. (…) It took me a few moments to realize that I had just killed the mother of my children,” he added.
His wife, a 33-year-old nurse, disappeared on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, without her body ever being found.
She was preparing to start a new life with another man.
Despite the absence of evidence or confessions at the time, Cédric Jubillar, a 38-year-old painter and plasterer, was sentenced in October to 30 years of criminal imprisonment.
He is now aware of having committed “an abominable act”, declared his lawyer Pierre Debuisson.
Following his confession, Cédric Jubillar told investigators that he had hidden his wife’s body on the edge of a field, about ten kilometers from their home. Excavations revealed bones there, the analysis of which confirmed that they were indeed the missing woman.
Incarcerated in solitary confinement, in December Cédric Jubillar had parental authority over his two children, now aged 11 and 6, entrusted by the courts to their maternal aunt.
