Jubillar case: lawyer requests search of unexplored area where Cédric Jubillar's phone was detected 17 times

In the small village of Cagnac-les-Mines, the memory of nurse Delphine Jubillar is still vivid. Four years ago, this 33-year-old nurse, mother of two, disappeared during the night of December 15-16, 2020. Her husband, Cédric, quickly became the prime suspect and will be tried before the Tarn Assize Court starting September 22.

But just months before the trial begins, a new twist in this case could shake things up. According to RTL, the lawyer for Delphine Jubillar's best friend has called for new searches in a wooded area near the couple's home.

The phone rang 17 times

In fact, the phone of Cédric Jubillar, the main suspect in this disappearance, reportedly rang 17 times in the Mirandol woods in the days preceding the young mother's disappearance.

According to the lawyer, Cédric Jubillar was in the forest a few days before and also on the night of the disappearance. According to the lawyer, the police only carried out a thirty-minute check.

This prompted the lawyer to ask the court for new searches of the site. She is requesting a response from the courts, as well as a " new examination of Cédric Jubillar's phone."

"The village is still thinking about it," said an employee of the village's only pharmacy, who did not want to give her name, in early March. "Besides, look, we have a poster there and we can't get it down," she showed our colleagues at AFP.

Will the trial of Cédric Jubillar, accused of murder based on a body of evidence despite the absence of a body or confession, help with this mourning process? "We all hope for a resolution to the story," Mayor Patrice Norkowski said last March.

In an attempt to find Delphine, huge citizen searches were immediately organized and investigators deployed canine units, drones, divers, etc.