Overview

• The four-week assize trial begins 22 September before the cour d’assises du Tarn in Albi, presided by Hélène Ratinaud with avocats généraux Pierre Aurignac et Nicolas Ruff, and defense counsel Alexandre Martin et Emmanuelle Franck.
• Jubillar is charged with aggravated spousal murder along with counts of kidnapping/sequestration and concealment of a body, offenses that carry a possible life sentence.
• Prosecutors will present a faisceau d’indices that includes broken glasses, screams reported that night, a duvet in the wash, phone activity, condensation in a car, evolving statements including the couple’s child, and disputed alleged admissions to a cellmate and partners.
• The defense argues the file is built on convictions rather than proof, denounces an enquête à charge and a contested prosecutor press conference, and plans to question the former Toulouse prosecutor at trial.
• Proceedings draw exceptional attention with roughly 300 accredited journalists; six jurors will be selected, public seating is limited with an overflow room, and prior rulings rejecting new excavations tied to questioned phone data frame key evidentiary debates.