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Aug 4, 2022 · Two series about an unsolved Irish murder, one made by the gifted Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan (and the other on Netflix), tell the same story in notably different ways.
Jun 19, 2021 · Two days before Christmas, French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier is murdered. Director Jim Sheridan begins his present day investigation in the Irish countryside exactly where the murder occurred in 1996.
Two days before Christmas in 1996, Sophie Toscan du Plantier was brutally murdered at her holiday cottage in Schull, West Cork. The murder rocked the quiet Irish town and 24 years later, the case remains a mystery.
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Aug 1, 2022 · Six-time Academy Award nominee Jim Sheridan ( In America, In the Name of the Father) is searching for justice for a murdered French television producer in a new Collider-exclusive trailer for...
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- Who Was Sophie Toscan Du Plantier?
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- French Homicide Charge
- What Does Bailey Say About The Case Now?
Du Plantier had visited Ireland several times as a teenager, and in 1993, she decided to buy a holiday home in Schull, near Toormore. In the Nineties, she lived in Paris with her husband, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, and her son from her first marriage. She decided to take a solo trip to Ireland just before Christmas, and arrived on December 20 1996 ...
The main suspect was named early on as Ian Bailey. A Mancunian who moved to Ireland in 1991, he was known to local police for a domestic violence attack on his partner, which led to her hospitalisation. He was convicted of assault in 2001. Bailey denies knowing Du Plantier – though several witnesses have since contradicted this – and the main atten...
If a French citizen is murdered in a country outside of France, extraterritorial jurisdiction still applies, under French law. So in 2010 – after Du Plantier’s family set up their own association to investigate the case – a European Arrest Warrant was issued for Bailey, and the Irish High Court granted an extradition order. However, Bailey appealed...
He told TodayFM’s The Last Wordprogramme: “I just thought it was very, very sad. The whole story is a tragedy. I had nothing to do with it, I’ve said that a thousand times.” Of the Netflix documentary, Bailey told The Irish Times: “It is a piece of biased, inimical, poisonous propaganda... It is based entirely on a false narrative, the same false n...
Two days before Christmas in 1996, Sophie Toscan du Plantier was brutally murdered at her holiday cottage in Schull, West Cork. The murder rocked the quiet Irish town and 24 years later, the case remains a mystery. This series sees six-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Jim Sheridan, piece together original evidence, never-before-seen footage, and ...
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Nov 16, 2020 · In 1996, two days before Christmas, Sophie, the wife of French filmmaker Daniel Toscan du Plantier, was murdered at her holiday cottage in Schull, West Cork. The murder rocked the quiet, Irish...
