1 00:00:13,617 --> 00:00:16,245 Sophie is at the center of this story. 2 00:00:22,001 --> 00:00:23,919 But it's true that for 23 years, 3 00:00:24,003 --> 00:00:27,757 it's often forgotten, uh, who my sister was. 4 00:09:49,860 --> 00:09:52,070 Nine a.m. in early winter. 5 00:09:52,154 --> 00:09:55,032 It is still dark on the Mizen Head peninsula. 6 00:09:59,036 --> 00:10:02,414 Georges and Marguerite Bouniol, Sophie Toscan du Plantier's parents, 7 00:10:02,497 --> 00:10:06,209 wanted to share a service with locals from this corner of Ireland 8 00:10:06,293 --> 00:10:07,502 which she loved so much. 9 00:10:09,630 --> 00:10:11,715 For a few days, a light's been on in this house 10 00:10:11,798 --> 00:10:13,634 that's long been lost in the countryside, 11 00:10:13,717 --> 00:10:15,927 where exactly one year ago today, 12 00:10:16,011 --> 00:10:19,097 the body of Sophie Toscan du Plantier was discovered. 13 00:10:26,104 --> 00:10:30,025 I was immediately very protected after my mother died. 14 00:10:31,234 --> 00:10:35,364 I didn't meet the police, French or Irish. 15 00:10:35,906 --> 00:10:37,574 I didn't meet the journalists. 16 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:41,620 I was… very far from all that. 17 00:10:44,289 --> 00:10:45,832 I was a little boy, uh… 18 00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:48,293 simply a victim. 19 00:10:51,922 --> 00:10:54,257 For days, 20 00:10:54,341 --> 00:10:56,218 then weeks, months, 21 00:10:56,301 --> 00:10:59,179 the police told the family 22 00:10:59,262 --> 00:11:01,431 that the end was very close. 23 00:11:01,515 --> 00:11:03,517 It was really round the corner. 24 00:11:08,438 --> 00:11:12,025 The Garda never stopped adding things to the case file. 25 00:11:12,109 --> 00:11:14,486 But we didn't know much about all that. 26 00:11:16,613 --> 00:11:19,074 We were still all in a very emotional state. 27 00:11:29,209 --> 00:11:30,961 Then in early January, 28 00:11:31,044 --> 00:11:34,506 once again the Garda told the family 29 00:11:34,589 --> 00:11:37,259 that it was going to be resolved soon. 30 00:12:14,421 --> 00:12:17,340 -Con, what's the story? -I don't know. I wish I did. 31 00:12:54,377 --> 00:12:57,672 I spoke to Jules when I arrived in the morning. 32 00:12:58,757 --> 00:13:01,343 I went to her house, to their house, 33 00:13:01,885 --> 00:13:03,637 because we were friends. 34 00:13:05,013 --> 00:13:06,348 And I asked her, 35 00:13:06,431 --> 00:13:08,391 "Do you think 36 00:13:09,351 --> 00:13:11,394 Ian could be guilty?" 37 00:13:14,022 --> 00:13:15,565 She said, "I don't know." 38 00:13:47,639 --> 00:13:49,975 Someone called me saying, 39 00:13:50,058 --> 00:13:53,812 "Tonight, Marie-Madeleine, I'll have good news for you." 40 00:13:54,938 --> 00:13:57,357 And then that night, there was no good news. 41 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:58,733 The DPP had said no. 42 00:14:15,542 --> 00:14:18,211 We were dumbfounded, all of us. 43 00:14:18,879 --> 00:14:21,381 Uh, It was very difficult for my parents. 44 00:14:24,342 --> 00:14:27,679 In Ireland, the family of the victim doesn't exist. 45 00:14:28,388 --> 00:14:30,557 The Garda leads their inquiry 46 00:14:31,641 --> 00:14:35,103 and subsequently gives the case… 47 00:14:36,229 --> 00:14:39,399 to the director of public prosecution, the DPP. 48 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:50,201 What does he do? He reads through the dossier, 49 00:14:50,285 --> 00:14:53,622 and it's him that decides whether to prosecute or not to prosecute. 50 00:14:53,705 --> 00:14:55,749 If there is not enough proof, 51 00:14:55,832 --> 00:14:57,542 not enough evidence, 52 00:14:58,501 --> 00:15:00,670 then he will not prosecute. 53 00:15:01,796 --> 00:15:04,966 If you'll excuse me saying, I think, 54 00:15:05,050 --> 00:15:05,967 at times, 55 00:15:06,051 --> 00:15:09,262 that Bailey had Ireland by the balls. 56 00:15:24,945 --> 00:15:27,572 With his partner, he responded to our questions 57 00:15:27,656 --> 00:15:29,157 and protested his innocence. 58 00:15:37,290 --> 00:15:40,752 We're not sure who is benefiting from these lies about us. 59 00:15:40,835 --> 00:15:44,673 But what I know is that the police have tried to pass me off as the murderer, 60 00:15:44,756 --> 00:15:46,383 as well as my partner, Jules. 61 00:15:46,883 --> 00:15:48,760 We really have nothing to do with it. 62 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,779 Previously, we didn't have access to the Irish file. 63 00:18:12,862 --> 00:18:18,660 What was extraordinary was that all the witnesses who had been interviewed 64 00:18:18,743 --> 00:18:22,956 came forward during this trial to say the same thing. 65 00:18:23,456 --> 00:18:25,166 They weren't the ones telling lies. 66 00:19:50,543 --> 00:19:53,713 Marie Farrell is a central character 67 00:19:53,796 --> 00:19:56,633 because she saw Bailey on the night of the murder 68 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,260 at Kealfadda Bridge. 69 00:19:59,344 --> 00:20:01,137 She was a pivotal witness. 70 00:26:41,245 --> 00:26:43,706 It was evident 71 00:26:43,789 --> 00:26:48,210 that Bailey seemed even more guilty than before. 72 00:26:48,794 --> 00:26:49,879 But nothing happened. 73 00:27:01,849 --> 00:27:03,476 Since my mom's death, 74 00:27:03,976 --> 00:27:06,520 I've been lucky enough to put a big barrier 75 00:27:06,604 --> 00:27:10,316 between… between me and this story. 76 00:27:15,404 --> 00:27:19,033 But, uh, time moves on. Uh… 77 00:27:19,116 --> 00:27:20,534 So now it's been 23 years, 78 00:27:21,577 --> 00:27:22,995 there have been two phases. 79 00:27:23,079 --> 00:27:24,121 The phase 80 00:27:25,331 --> 00:27:27,375 where I was, uh… 81 00:27:28,376 --> 00:27:31,003 the child who's suffering, 82 00:27:31,921 --> 00:27:33,881 crying, grieving, 83 00:27:33,964 --> 00:27:35,424 and then the phase 84 00:27:36,217 --> 00:27:37,885 where I enter the fight. 85 00:27:50,898 --> 00:27:56,237 The association is extremely important for me and for the search for truth. 86 00:27:57,780 --> 00:28:01,617 Every month, whatever is going on in everyone's lives, 87 00:28:02,410 --> 00:28:03,452 we meet. 88 00:28:08,457 --> 00:28:11,127 It was founded by my grandma's brother. 89 00:28:12,169 --> 00:28:16,006 We were very confident. The Irish police, the Garda, 90 00:28:16,507 --> 00:28:20,052 were going to solve the problem. "We'd found the killer." 91 00:28:20,636 --> 00:28:23,013 Then, obviously, it didn't work out like that. 92 00:28:24,348 --> 00:28:26,934 At that point, I started saying to my sister, 93 00:28:27,017 --> 00:28:29,895 "We're stuck. We could wait years. Nothing is being done." 94 00:28:29,979 --> 00:28:33,023 And so we created the association in 2007. 95 00:28:33,566 --> 00:28:35,025 What's going on? 96 00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:39,155 Have you lost weight? 97 00:28:39,238 --> 00:28:42,324 I didn't know anything about criminal law. 98 00:28:42,408 --> 00:28:45,327 I learned about the differences between the legal systems. 99 00:28:45,995 --> 00:28:51,417 Is it possible to convict in absentia in Ireland? 100 00:29:14,273 --> 00:29:17,485 After the 2003 libel trial, 101 00:29:17,568 --> 00:29:20,529 we have all the witness accounts. Everything for the first time. 102 00:29:21,030 --> 00:29:24,825 And it was the beginning of the legal fight in France 103 00:29:25,326 --> 00:29:26,952 for truth and justice 104 00:29:27,578 --> 00:29:28,579 for Sophie. 105 00:29:29,580 --> 00:29:34,752 All those who knew Mom, uh, knew she was a fighter, 106 00:29:34,835 --> 00:29:37,755 and, uh, I… I… 107 00:29:37,838 --> 00:29:39,840 I am going to try and be a fighter. 108 00:29:40,549 --> 00:29:41,675 One thing is for sure. 109 00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:45,471 Bailey will not escape justice his whole life. 110 00:29:48,641 --> 00:29:52,436 We created the association in September 2007, 111 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,357 and the French investigation began in 2008. 112 00:32:21,293 --> 00:32:25,255 Our family's great regret is that we didn't put an end to the pressure 113 00:32:25,339 --> 00:32:27,424 that Bailey exerted on Marie Farrell. 114 00:32:28,175 --> 00:32:29,426 For many years, 115 00:32:30,094 --> 00:32:33,305 she lived in the same village as Bailey, in Schull, 116 00:32:33,389 --> 00:32:35,766 and she was put under enormous pressure. 117 00:32:37,935 --> 00:32:41,438 The case swung, and Ian Bailey started to bounce back. 118 00:33:37,995 --> 00:33:41,874 Big mistakes from the beginning, 119 00:33:41,957 --> 00:33:46,253 from the crime scene that wasn't preserved. 120 00:33:48,547 --> 00:33:50,549 People could walk over it. 121 00:38:07,889 --> 00:38:11,476 When a French citizen is murdered abroad, 122 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:15,314 France has the right to carry out its own inquiry 123 00:38:15,397 --> 00:38:18,191 and after that to prosecute 124 00:38:19,026 --> 00:38:20,360 the suspect. 125 00:47:04,384 --> 00:47:06,803 Did you know Sophie Toscan du Plantier? 126 00:47:17,105 --> 00:47:20,608 When Sophie died, it was such a shock. 127 00:47:21,609 --> 00:47:24,279 As a result, I closed all the doors. 128 00:47:24,362 --> 00:47:27,448 I didn't read, listen to, or watch anything. 129 00:47:28,992 --> 00:47:30,827 I didn't want to know anything. 130 00:47:33,121 --> 00:47:36,749 The memory only came back because we created the association, 131 00:47:37,458 --> 00:47:39,627 so it was a long time afterwards. 132 00:47:39,711 --> 00:47:41,963 It's one of those curious workings of the memory. 133 00:47:42,046 --> 00:47:46,801 "A man who wrote poems" flooded back into my mind. 134 00:47:49,596 --> 00:47:52,599 It may have been the first night she was in Ireland. 135 00:47:52,682 --> 00:47:55,602 A few days before my birthday, she called me, 136 00:47:55,685 --> 00:47:58,271 and we talked about everything, 137 00:47:58,354 --> 00:48:02,442 about her life, her husband, her work, what she'd done that day. 138 00:48:04,444 --> 00:48:08,197 At a moment in the conversation where she was telling me about her work, 139 00:48:08,281 --> 00:48:10,283 she told me about this man. 140 00:48:11,326 --> 00:48:14,370 This man wanted to meet her to talk about a project 141 00:48:15,455 --> 00:48:16,497 around poetry, 142 00:48:18,041 --> 00:48:19,626 and she found him strange. 143 00:48:20,251 --> 00:48:22,629 She found him a bit worrying as a character. 144 00:48:23,713 --> 00:48:27,342 I said, "Don't see him alone. See him in a public place." 145 00:49:00,208 --> 00:49:05,296 This story extremely affected me, really. 146 00:49:06,089 --> 00:49:08,675 It profoundly affected me. 147 00:49:10,134 --> 00:49:13,930 It was the evening before her departure. 148 00:49:15,848 --> 00:49:19,268 I thought she was talking about a Breton director 149 00:49:19,352 --> 00:49:21,813 who had a similar-sounding name. 150 00:49:22,689 --> 00:49:25,984 So I said to her, "Oh yes, I know him. I've seen this film, that film." 151 00:49:26,067 --> 00:49:28,361 She said, "No, you can't know him." 152 00:49:28,444 --> 00:49:31,406 "Ian Bailey lives next door to me in Cork." 153 00:49:33,074 --> 00:49:35,952 She told me that he earned a living as a writer, 154 00:49:36,035 --> 00:49:38,413 that is to say he's a journalist or a poet, 155 00:49:39,455 --> 00:49:44,127 and he was interested in stories of domestic violence. 156 00:49:47,255 --> 00:49:49,882 Sophie knew Bailey. Bailey knew Sophie. 157 00:49:51,592 --> 00:49:54,762 The second element is Bailey's confessions. 158 00:49:55,972 --> 00:50:00,268 Bailey's confession to Malachi Reed, to different people, 159 00:50:00,351 --> 00:50:02,228 "I did it. I did it" 160 00:50:02,311 --> 00:50:06,733 The third element is Bailey's timetable during the night of the murder. 161 00:50:08,276 --> 00:50:12,363 He himself confessed that he went out on the night of the murder. 162 00:50:12,947 --> 00:50:14,949 So no alibi for Bailey. 163 00:50:15,992 --> 00:50:18,578 The other point is, of course, 164 00:50:18,661 --> 00:50:21,664 the scratches and the mark on the forehead. 165 00:50:45,354 --> 00:50:48,566 We had a trial that we'd waited for for 22, 23 years. 166 00:51:07,919 --> 00:51:10,088 Just before the trial in France, 167 00:51:10,171 --> 00:51:13,257 I wanted to go to Ireland with my uncle, Bertrand, 168 00:51:13,341 --> 00:51:15,635 to explain what was happening 169 00:51:16,177 --> 00:51:19,055 to the local community. 170 00:51:21,307 --> 00:51:23,184 And why it was important for them 171 00:51:23,851 --> 00:51:25,353 that I was fighting 172 00:51:26,395 --> 00:51:28,147 for justice for my mother, 173 00:51:29,232 --> 00:51:32,568 to clear their land's name. 174 00:51:33,528 --> 00:51:35,822 So it's a text that I read out in the church. 175 00:52:14,527 --> 00:52:18,447 I have fought like a dog for years. 176 00:52:20,533 --> 00:52:22,994 I've suffered for years. 177 00:52:23,786 --> 00:52:28,249 My conviction for the past 15 years 178 00:52:28,332 --> 00:52:31,252 is that everything points to Bailey. 179 00:52:31,878 --> 00:52:36,048 Everything, everything, everything shows that it's Bailey. 180 00:52:36,883 --> 00:52:38,092 There's no question. 181 00:53:22,553 --> 00:53:24,680 I won't let it go. 182 00:53:28,142 --> 00:53:29,560 I won't leave him alone. 183 00:53:35,608 --> 00:53:40,404 I went to the trial, and I was questioned as a witness. 184 00:53:40,905 --> 00:53:45,034 It was very difficult to go through, very intimidating. 185 00:53:46,077 --> 00:53:49,789 I had to say that Sophie had spoken to me about this man. 186 00:53:50,289 --> 00:53:51,874 That's what was important. 187 00:54:21,279 --> 00:54:23,489 I think that my witness statement, 188 00:54:23,572 --> 00:54:29,203 with all the other witness statements, were useful for the outcome of the trial. 189 00:54:56,188 --> 00:54:57,356 For the first time, 190 00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:00,776 it was people on the outside of the subject who were judging. 191 00:55:00,860 --> 00:55:03,529 Everything we imagined, all of our hypotheses 192 00:55:04,196 --> 00:55:07,950 laid out by the judges, who are objective and professional. 193 00:55:18,878 --> 00:55:22,089 After 22 years of waiting, 194 00:55:23,174 --> 00:55:25,176 22 years of suffering, 195 00:55:25,801 --> 00:55:27,511 22 years of questions, 196 00:55:28,637 --> 00:55:31,057 the judges convicted Ian Bailey, 197 00:55:31,599 --> 00:55:34,268 who killed my mother over 22 years ago, 198 00:55:34,977 --> 00:55:36,312 to 25 years in prison. 199 00:55:36,395 --> 00:55:38,981 Mr. Bailey was guilty. 200 00:55:44,862 --> 00:55:47,823 It's clear. Uh… He killed her. 201 00:55:50,618 --> 00:55:51,702 The judge said it. 202 00:56:22,858 --> 00:56:25,403 It's a verdict. It's the first verdict, 203 00:56:26,612 --> 00:56:31,700 and I don't see how Ireland could refuse the extradition. 204 00:56:31,784 --> 00:56:34,495 Now justice must be done. 205 00:57:45,524 --> 00:57:46,692 I don't know. 206 00:57:47,193 --> 00:57:49,862 If Bailey continues to slip through the net, 207 00:57:50,613 --> 00:57:54,533 I assure you I will make sure the net comes down on Bailey. 208 00:57:59,914 --> 00:58:02,666 He was convicted in France. Now I don't understand 209 00:58:02,750 --> 00:58:05,252 how this man is walking around in Ireland. 210 00:58:05,836 --> 00:58:08,672 Can you explain to me why this man is free? 211 00:59:55,821 --> 00:59:58,741 I've seen Bailey at least twice. 212 00:59:59,742 --> 01:00:01,452 He recognized me one time. 213 01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:05,664 He's convinced himself of his story, 214 01:00:06,624 --> 01:00:07,916 but… 215 01:00:08,584 --> 01:00:11,962 I have no empathy. None. 216 01:00:14,423 --> 01:00:18,969 Just the feeling of having seen a void. 217 01:00:20,262 --> 01:00:21,263 Nothingness. 218 01:00:46,038 --> 01:00:49,291 What bothers me is that he hasn't confessed. 219 01:00:51,085 --> 01:00:54,880 You would feel that justice had been done if he confessed though? 220 01:00:54,963 --> 01:00:55,923 Right. 221 01:00:56,965 --> 01:00:58,967 Marguerite is convinced it's him. 222 01:01:00,844 --> 01:01:02,846 But would it bring peace? 223 01:01:03,639 --> 01:01:06,517 You don't get justice with the death of your daughter. 224 01:01:12,773 --> 01:01:15,150 The house in Ireland, for me, is the only place 225 01:01:15,234 --> 01:01:18,570 I would go with my mother and where I continue to go today. 226 01:01:26,537 --> 01:01:27,996 It's like going to see her. 227 01:01:32,292 --> 01:01:36,338 It's like going to stay with her every time. 228 01:01:40,175 --> 01:01:41,719 It doesn't work. 229 01:01:44,096 --> 01:01:47,474 Mom is very present in this house. 230 01:01:49,101 --> 01:01:51,061 Look how white the hail is. 231 01:01:53,188 --> 01:01:54,565 She is very present.