Georges Bouniol, who spent almost three decades campaigning to have his daughter's killer brought to justice, died at the age of 98 in Paris.
Sophie Toscan du Plantier's parents, Georges and Marguerite Bouniol, at a memorial mass for her in Goleen, West Cork. Photograph: Provisionhas died in hospital in Paris at the age of 98 after spending almost three decades campaigning to have his daughter’s killer brought to justice.
A native of Lozère in southern France, Mr Bouniol and his wife found themselves in the media spotlight on December 23rd, 1996 when they learned their only daughter had been murdered near her holiday home in West Cork.Ten expert predictions about the world in 2025.
“I said, ‘We have to say goodbye to our daughter’. Her face was crushed to a pulp. They’d tried to fashion a sort of mask with make-up, but it didn’t look like Sophie. They had to cut her beautiful long hair, because it was matted and tangled with blood. “We’re somewhere else. In the fog. This couldn’t possibly have happened to us. We’re not alive. One cannot accept such things. It is a nightmare that never ends. We’ve been in a black hole for 17 years. It’s even worse now, because we realise the guilty person will not be punished.”
Mr Gazeau said funeral arrangements have yet to be finalised but he confirmed Mr Bouniol would be buried in the family plot in Combret in Lozère beside Sophie, who was re-interred there after being first buried in Ambax at the country estate of her husband, Daniel Toscan du Plantier
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