Cagnac-les-Mines (France) (AFP) – The reconstruction of the night of the murder of Delphine Aussaguel, in 2020 in Tarn, ended on Friday without any new revelation or credible version of the facts from Cédric Jubillar, according to the lawyers of the civil parties, for whom the 39-year-old painter-plasterer was entangled in his contradictions.

Published on: 02/10/2026 - 07:40 Modified on: 02/10/2026 - 16:24

“Without truly admitting the facts, he recognized them,” noted Laurent Boguet, lawyer for the judicial administrator in charge of the children of the Jubillar couple, after what constituted the second reconstitution procedure in this case, after a first organized in December 2022.

Decided following Cédric Jubillar's confession of guilt in July, it took place first in the couple's unfinished house in the village of Cagnac-les-Mines, near Albi, then in a field where the bones of the 33-year-old nurse and mother of their two children were found, in the town of Mailhoc, about ten kilometers from the home.

Supervised by a large force of law enforcement, the operation attended by investigators, representatives of the prosecution, defense lawyers and relatives of the victim, lasted approximately three hours.

The morning left the representatives of the civil parties unsatisfied, the only ones to speak on Friday.

“I think we are still far from the mark. Now, there will be a trial before the Assize Court and we will be able to discuss everything that is wrong (…) there are things that do not add up,” underlined Malika Chmani, who represents the couple’s two children, with Me Boguet.

"Lies"

He “continues to get stuck in his endless lies, he says everything and anything, we haven’t learned anything new,” she said.

For Mourad Battikh, lawyer for the victim's uncles and aunts, Mr. Jubillar's version of the facts is "a constructed scenario, without witnesses, a scenario which does not hold water in view of the material and pragmatic elements with which he is confronted".

On July 16, after five years of denial, Cédric Jubillar, 39, finally admitted his crime, then he led investigators the next day to the place where he had hidden his wife's body.

Friday, in front of the magistrates, gendarmes and lawyers who scrutinized his actions, Cédric Jubillar recounted his version of how the night of December 15 to 16, 2020, unfolded, in full confinement, mimicking his actions on the night of the tragedy.

"He was unable to carry Delphine's body. Put in a situation, he was immediately put in difficulty", detailed Me Battikh, while one of his colleagues recounted a defendant who was "bad" when he repeated the strangulation gesture on a gendarme playing the role of his wife.

Another lawyer present, Pauline Rongier, who defends the interests of a friend of Delphine Aussaguel, "saw a cold, affectless Cédric Jubillar who very factually described a scenario without emotion, without talking about her, without explaining what he might have felt when seeing her dead, without embodying all of his actions either."

It was a "scenario" rather than a reconstruction, the first president of the Toulouse Court of Appeal, Chantal Ferreira, had indicated ahead of the day, the choice having been made to organize this investigative act in broad daylight while the facts had taken place at night.

Premeditation?

For the lawyer of one of Delphine's cousins, Philippe Pressecq, Cédric Jubillar has not yet understood that his confession alone was not enough.

“Confessing to a murder,” he said, “is something important, but something also important is the circumstances of the murder, the premeditation, the way of killing, the way of separating oneself from the body (…) and there, what he has to say is so horrible, that he cannot say it and he will never say it.”

Me Rongier believes that his attitude this morning only confirms "not only the idea of ​​an intention to kill but also of prior reflection and possible premeditation".

Cédric Jubillar's lawyer present during the reconstruction, Pierre Debuisson, for his part did not wish to speak to the press.

Sentenced at first instance to 30 years of criminal imprisonment in October 2025, he appealed the decision. A new trial will take place in Toulouse from April 30 to May 14, before the Haute-Garonne Assize Court.

On Wednesday and Thursday, a new sequence of searches, eagerly awaited by the family and relatives, was organized by the gendarmes, in a field in Mailhoc, which had not yet been the subject of investigations, according to a source close to the investigation, but no new element was found.

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