It is not yet 9:30 a.m. this Friday, October 2, 2026 when a police van with tinted windows makes a discreet appearance in Cagnac-les-Mines, away from journalists - the route having been defined at the last minute, a gendarme tells us. He crosses the security barrier to reach the red brick pavilion located rue Yves-Montand. Cédric Jubillar is back in Cagnac-les-Mines (Tarn) as part of a new reconstruction dedicated to the disappearance of his wife.
It was there, in this house, that on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, he allegedly attacked his wife, Delphine Aussaguel, a 33-year-old nurse. A murder that he denied outright for five and a half years, before confessing to it this summer in a handwritten letter sent to his lawyer.
The lawyers for the defense and the civil parties were summoned at 9:30 a.m. by the judge appointed for additional information following the confessions of the painter-plasterer in order to “verify whether his new statements are compatible with the elements of the file”, according to Chantal Ferreira, first president of the Toulouse Court of Appeal.
“I had my two thumbs at the level of his glottis”
The day must therefore test his confidences as well as a new story delivered during two interrogations on July 15 and September 18, to which Le Figaro had access. In these statements, Cédric Jubillar gave new details on the circumstances of his crime. While the investigators thought that the tragedy had taken place in the living room, Cédric Jubillar assured, for example, that it had taken place in the kitchen: “She is against the fridge, I am holding her against the fridge,” he said during this interrogation according to a document that Le Figaro was able to consult. I had my two thumbs positioned at the level of his glottis, I wrapped my hands around his neck. I squeezed with both hands, without object.”
At the same time, other elements will be scrutinized, such as the “screams of fear” heard by neighbors around 11 p.m., or the statement made during the investigation by Louis, the couple’s eldest. He claims to have seen his parents between the sofa and the tree, pushing each other, then to have heard his mother say “stop” and “then we will separate”. So many elements which do not correspond to Cédric Jubillar's story and which will be the subject of this scenario.
The defense assures that its client “never intended to kill his wife”, while for the prosecution, homicidal intent is in no doubt. A point which will be decisive for the appeal trial scheduled in Toulouse from April 30 to May 14, 2027, where Cédric Jubillar faces life imprisonment.
Other bones?
On July 16, investigators exhumed the nurse's bones on a plot of land in Mailhoc - around ten kilometers from Cagnac-les-Mines - guided by the instructions of Cédric Jubillar. These would be two femurs, according to Le Figaro. But where are the other remains? On Wednesday and Thursday, some 150 gendarmes were deployed again, without any results being communicated.
This Friday, the Tarn gendarmerie is still mobilizing around 150 soldiers, including two squadrons of mobile gendarmes, to “secure” this second reconstitution. To represent the missing nurse, a mannequin or a breastplate will be used, having the same size as the mother. Cédric Jubillar will be invited to mime the gestures he says he has committed.
After the house, the reconstruction must continue in Mailhoc. Piles of soil were placed there to check if he was able, as he claims, to dig alone, with his bare hands and in the middle of the night, in order to bury the body of his wife, with whom he was then in the process of divorcing.
