"A Frenchman went on trial on Monday charged with the murder of his wife, denying that he killed her in a case that has occupied a high media profile since her disappearance at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in December 2020. "I still deny the accusations against me," Cédric Jubillar, 38, told the packed court in the southern town of Albi."
""There are all the ingredients for this to be of interest to everyone," said Alexandre Martin, one of Cédric Jubillar's two lawyers, pointing to "a nurse who disappears in the middle of the Covid crisis... the mystery, the absence of a body". For Delphine's family members, the trial is generating "a lot of apprehension," said Mourad Battikh, who represents five of the nurse's relatives."
Cédric Jubillar, 38, stands accused of murdering his wife Delphine, 33, who vanished in December 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Jubillar denied the accusations in court and has been held in detention since 2021. Delphine, a nurse, has never been found and her disappearance has drawn sustained media attention. Prosecutors allege she was killed during a dispute because her husband could not tolerate her leaving him for another man. Family members express apprehension and hope the proceedings will reveal the truth, while Jubillar's lawyers criticize the investigation as prejudiced. The couple have two children, including an 11-year-old son under stress.
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