Overview
- At the Tarn assize court on October 2, Cédric Jubillar acknowledged telling an acquaintance he wanted to kill his wife, saying he spoke in anger and maintaining he did not harm her.
- He rejected the witness’s claim that he also said he would bury her, a detail read aloud by the presiding judge from a 2020 statement.
- A former childminder testified he once boasted he would have hidden a body better than Jonathann Daval, which he disputed, and the defense stressed that this account emerged years after the fact.
- On October 1, close friend Anne S. described verbal denigration, escalating tensions and a message from the accused that if Delphine had a lover he would “do her over,” while saying his distress after the disappearance looked staged.
- With no recovered body or conclusive forensic proof, the prosecution relies on witness testimony and technical data as the Albi trial moves toward a verdict due October 17, with life imprisonment at stake for murder of a spouse.