Father of murdered filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier dies at 98, cold case review ongoing.

Georges Bouniol, father of murdered French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier, has died in Paris at 98. Sophie was killed near her holiday home in Co. Cork, Ireland, in 1996. The main suspect, British journalist Ian Bailey, died in 2021 without being charged in Ireland, though he was convicted in absentia in France in 2019. A cold case review is ongoing, with no decision yet on a formal inquiry.

December 30, 2024
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