Overview

• Cédric Jubillar’s lawyers exploited inconsistencies in the first gendarmes’ accounts, challenging details about a car’s orientation, window condensation, and even the location and color of a handbag noted the night Delphine vanished.
• Under questioning, a primo-intervening gendarme conceded she had not checked whether the vehicle’s engine was warm and that a remark seen as suspicious by the accused could be interpreted differently in context.
• The defense highlighted that the notion of Delphine walking at night came from a friend’s statement recorded that morning, not from Jubillar, countering a key premise of the prosecution narrative.
• Earlier testimony relayed that the couple’s son believes his father is responsible, while the court-appointed representative urged Jubillar to answer his children’s questions; the accused nodded as the request was made.
• The monthlong assize trial in Albi, set through 17 October with 65 witnesses and 11 experts, now turns to additional early witnesses and the lead investigator, as Jubillar—who allowed filming—continues to deny the charges in a case built on circumstantial indicators and a missing body.