Contradictory, “locked in his lies”, not really convincing… Cédric Jubillar is far from having met the expectations of the civil parties during the reconstruction of the night of the murder of Delphine Aussaguel, in 2020 in Tarn. The latter ended this Friday without any new revelation or credible version of the facts from Cédric Jubillar, who became entangled in his contradictions according to the lawyers of the civil parties. “Without truly admitting the facts, he recognized them,” summarizes Laurent Boguet, lawyer for the judicial administrator in charge of children, after the reconstruction which lasted more than three hours.
Organized following Cédric Jubillar's confession of guilt, it took place first in the couple's villa in the village of Cagnac-les-Mines, near Albi, then in a field where the bones of the 33-year-old nurse and mother of their two children were found. “I think we are still far from the goal. Now, there will be a trial before the Assize Court and we will be able to discuss everything that is wrong […] there are things that do not add up,” says Malika Chmani, the other lawyer for the couple’s two children.
“He says anything and everything”
Taken from his cell at Seysses prison, near Toulouse, where he has been detained since June 2021, Cédric Jubillar, 39, arrived on the scene in a prison administration vehicle. Summoned to replay the scene, cornered by the magistrates and investigators, he “continues to get stuck in his lies endlessly, he says everything and anything, we have learned nothing new”.
For Me Mourad Battikh, lawyer for the victim's uncles and aunts, his version of the facts is "a constructed scenario, without witnesses, a scenario which does not hold water in view of the material and pragmatic elements with which he is confronted". “He was unable to carry Delphine’s body. Put in a situation, he was immediately put in difficulty,” continues the lawyer.
A “situation” rather than a reconstruction
On July 16, after five years of denial, Cédric Jubillar finally admitted his crime, then he led investigators the next day to the place where he had hidden his wife's corpse. In front of the magistrates, gendarmes and lawyers of the civil party who scrutinized his actions, Cédric Jubillar recounted his version of the unfolding of the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, in full confinement. It was a “situation” rather than a reconstruction, warned the first president of the Toulouse Court of Appeal, Chantal Ferreira.
For the lawyer of one of Delphine's cousins, Me Philippe Pressecq, sincerity was not there. “Confessing to a murder is something important, but something also important is the circumstances of the murder, the premeditation, the way of killing, the way of separating oneself from the body […] and there, what he has to say is so horrible, that he cannot say it and he will never say it.”
“We saw a cold, affectless Cedric Jubillar”
For Me Pauline Rongier, Cédric Jubillar's attitude only confirms "not only the idea of an intention to kill but also of prior reflection and possible premeditation". “The partial recognition of the facts […] serves his personal interests, we saw a cold, affectless Cédric Jubillar who very factually described a scenario without emotion, without talking about her, without explaining what he might have felt when seeing her dead, without embodying all of his actions either,” she said.
For his part, Cédric Jubillar's lawyer present during the reconstruction, Me Pierre Debuisson, did not wish to speak to the press. Sentenced at first instance to 30 years of criminal imprisonment in October 2025, he appealed the decision. A new trial will take place in Toulouse from April 30 to May 14, before the Haute-Garonne Assize Court.
On Wednesday and Thursday, a new sequence of searches, eagerly awaited by the family and relatives, was organized by the gendarmes, in a field in Mailhoc, which had not yet been the subject of investigations, according to a source close to the investigation, but no new element was found.
