The Reason Why Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s Family Pulled Out Of Sky documentary

Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s brother has shared why he and his family removed their involvement in the Sky documentary about his sister’s murder.

The case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder has been a topic of conversation recently with two documentary’s airing within two weeks of each other, Jim Sheridan’s documentary Murder at the Cottage and Netflix’s Sophie: A Murder in West Cork.

The family of Sophie appeared in the Netflix doc but were nowhere to be seen in the Sky documentary, although they had filmed interviews for it. So why the change of heart?

On RTE Radio 1’s Brendan O’Connor Show Sophie’s brother Bertrand Bouniol spoke to Philip Boucher-Hayes about the series, “What was important was the project described by Netflix was to put Sophie at the centre of the story…And for the first time in the last 25 years, it was the first time that someone put Sophie in the middle, in the centre of the description, in the case of this documentary…So it was important for us to testimony, who was Sophie? Because in the last 25 years, we forget that,” he said.

“When we met the project of Mr Sheridan the first time, he was not in the project. When we met people working on that project, they told us, they explained to us, that they also wanted to speak about Sophie, so we say okay, we want to speak about Sophie,” he continued.

“But they moved the objective of this documentary. It was not about Sophie, it was about Mr Bailey [the main suspect in the murder].

“And when you look at this documentary, everything is focussed on Mr Bailey. What you see in the documentary is it is more and more and more and more focused on Mr Bailey,” he said.

He went on to say although it is tough returning to Ireland, the family feel that it is a connection to Sophie, “It is not easy to come into this area but at the same time, if we want to continue to have some kind of contact with Sophie, it is also a place to have some kind of contact with my sister…

“When you arrive at the end of this little road and you enter the house, you know that you are close to my sister. And that is why it is so important for us to come into this area,” he said.

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