{"id":286913,"date":"2021-06-29T23:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-murder-in-west-cork-retells-a-controversial-crime-story\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T23:00:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:00:53","slug":"a-murder-in-west-cork-retells-a-controversial-crime-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-murder-in-west-cork-retells-a-controversial-crime-story\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Murder in West Cork’ Retells a Controversial Crime Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A Murder in West Cork’ Retells a Controversial Crime Story<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Netflix\u2019s three-part docuseries<\/a> Sophie: A Murder in West Cork<\/em> revisits the 1996 killing of Sophie Toscan du Plaintier, a \u201cshocking murder in rural Ireland\u201d that set off \u201can increasingly convoluted quest for justice that spans decades and cuts across national borders.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that synopsis is no hyperbole. The murder case has taken twists and turns as it has toggled between Ireland and France, and there\u2019s seemingly no end in sight.<\/p>\n

According to Esquire UK<\/a><\/em>, Toscan du Plantier was a French TV producer and a mother of one who had a holiday home in Toormore, an area in the county of Cork. She travel<\/a>ed to the house alone on December 20, 1996, intending to stay for a few days before returning to Paris.<\/p>\n

But on December 23, a neighbor found Toscan du Plantier\u2019s body\u2014dressed in nightwear and boots\u2014just outside that holiday home. According to Radio France Internationale<\/a><\/em>, she was beaten with a concrete block so viciously that the neighbor couldn\u2019t identify her remains.<\/p>\n

\"Sophie:<\/p>\n

Netflix<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The following February, police arrested Ian Bailey, a freelance journalist and gardener whom a local shopkeeper saw in the area on the night of the crime. He had scratches on his arms and face, and he knew details that were supposedly only available to investigators, per RFI<\/em>. Without further evidence, though, the police released him, only to arrest and release him again less than a year later.<\/p>\n

Following a separate investigation in France, a 2010 European Arrest Warrant was put out on Bailey\u2019s name, and the Irish High Court agreed to extradite Bailey to France, but the Irish Supreme Court overturned that decision.<\/p>\n

In 2019, after a French court tried Bailey in absentia, he was convicted of voluntary homicide in 2019 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. But Bailey remains in Ireland to this day and still maintains his innocence. And he called Sophie: A Murder in West Cork<\/em> a \u201cpiece of biased, inimical, poisonous propaganda\u201d in a recent interview with The Irish Times<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is based entirely on a false narrative, the same false narrative which was used to convict me in my absence in France, linking me to a crime that I had nothing to do with, and it will most assuredly demonize me,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n