A French father of two went on trial Monday charged with the murder of his wife, denying he killed her in a case that captivated France since her disappearance at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in December 2020.

“I still deny the accusations against me,” Cedric Jubillar, 38, told the packed court in the southern town of Albi.

The body of his wife Delphine, 33, a nurse, has never been found in a mystery that has rarely been far from the headlines almost five years after her disappearance in rural southern France.

The trial, expected to last four weeks, got underway with a heavy media presence, with the defendant present in the glass-fronted dock dressed in a tracksuit top and jeans.

“There are all the ingredients for this to be of interest to everyone,” said Alexandre Martin, one o

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