Overview

• The assize court in Albi begins a four-week hearing with 65 witnesses, 11 experts, 27 volumes of case files and more than 300 accredited journalists, with a verdict expected on October 17.
• Cédric Jubillar, 38, maintains his innocence after over four years in pretrial detention and faces life imprisonment for alleged murder of his wife Delphine in December 2020.
• Despite vast searches by specialized units and extensive forensic work, investigators found no body, no crime scene and no definitive physical evidence.
• Prosecutors will lean on a set of indicators including Delphine’s broken glasses, the couple’s son describing a dispute, neighbors reporting screams, and third-party claims that Jubillar confessed in varying accounts.
• The defense denounces what it calls a one-sided investigation, contests procedural conduct including a prosecutor’s press briefing, plans to question the former Toulouse prosecutor, and urges jurors to focus on the absence of proof.