A man convicted of the murder of his wife in a high-profile case in France since 2020, and confessed about ten days ago in a spectacular turnaround, indicated the location of the body in the southwest, where bones were found on Thursday.
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The bones were found precisely in the Tarn department, at the location indicated to investigators by Cédric Jubillar to find the body of his wife Delphine, a nurse. Cédric Jubillar, who had been taken from the prison where he had been detained for several months, was present at the search site, accompanied by his lawyers.
“Bones which could be human bones were found at the places indicated by Cédric Jubillar as the place where he had deposited the body,” the prosecutor general of the Court of Appeal of Toulouse (south-west), Nicolas Jacquet, told AFP.
In Villeneuve-sur-Vère, the village where the couple resided, a gendarmerie van blocked access to the excavation area, in the middle of fields yellowed by the heatwave, noted an AFP journalist.
These searches were launched the day after a hearing, Wednesday, during which “Cédric Jubillar admitted to being at the origin of the death of Delphine Aussaguel and indicated that he could direct investigators to locate the body”, according to Mr. Jacquet.
This hearing was requested by the lawyers of the 38-year-old painter-plasterer, the day after the thunderclap caused by the revelation, on July 6, of a letter in which he admitted for the first time his “responsibility” in the death of the young woman of 33 years and mother of their two children, who was preparing to leave him and start a new life with another man.
Delphine Jubillar disappeared near Toulouse on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020.
For more than five years, and in particular throughout his highly publicized trial before the Tarn assizes, at the end of which he was sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment in October, Cédric Jubillar has always proclaimed his innocence.
