Albi, France — A man on trial for the murder of his wife in a case that has gripped France claimed Monday to have been asleep during the night of her disappearance, which happened during the COVID-19 pandemic in December 2020.

“I was asleep, and I didn’t wake up,” Cedric Jubillar, 38, told a courtroom in the southern town of Albi.

The body of his wife Delphine, a 33-year-old nurse and the mother of his two children, has never been found since she went missing in rural southern France.

Jubillar, a painter and plasterer held in detention since 2021, stands accused of murdering his wife after she asked for a divorce while having an affair with another man.

Investigating magistrates believe that a pair of Delphine’s broken glasses, along with testimony of the couple’s son and screams heard

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