Overview

• The four‑week assizes trial begins Monday, September 22, in Albi with Cédric Jubillar as the sole defendant facing possible life imprisonment after more than four years in pretrial detention.
• Investigators present a bundle of circumstantial elements rather than direct forensic proof, citing broken glasses, a duvet in the washer, vehicle condensation, phone activity patterns and screams reported that night.
• No body has been found and there is no DNA, CCTV or decisive phone geolocation to settle competing narratives.
• Several alleged admissions attributed to the accused by a jailmate, relatives and a recent partner are in the file, though their credibility is contested by the defense.
• Delphine Jubillar’s relatives say they seek clarity at the hearings, with a lawyer poised to re‑request searches near the Mirandol forest after an earlier refusal, as more than 300 journalists register and commentators recall past no‑body cases such as Viguier.