Uncle of slain filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier insists justice was served in France despite no conviction in Ireland. He calls for official inquest and criticizes Irish State's handling of the case.
Micheál Martin earlier suggested Ireland’s legal system “proved incapable of meeting its responsibilities" to Sophie Toscan du PlantierHe added that the “the evidence against the main suspect was broad and deep” and that Mr Bailey was a “violent man”.39-year-old French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered at her holiday home in West Cork in 1996.
"The fact that the DPP didn't take a decision and allowed the release of a text against the work by the Garda in 2000."Mr Gazeau said as far as he is concerned justice has been served in France. "French justice took a decision in 2019 so for us Ian Bailey has been considered as a killer and has been judged in France in absentia," he said.
"But a lot of things we don't know - we don't know exactly what happened between 11pm on December 22nd 1996 and 10.30am the next day."We don't know the exact time of the death of Sophie, we don't know if Ian Bailey was alone or was with someone - we don't know anything about that period".Main image: Sophie Toscan Du Plantier's uncle Jean Pierre Gazeau at the launch of of ASSOPH - the Association for the truth about Sophie's murder - in Dublin, 23-2-08.
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