Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Sophie Toscan du Plantier was brutally murdered outside her home in Kealfadda in Goleen - in the parish in which I live - on 23 December 1996. Twenty-seven years on, her death continues to enthrall the world but remains a blight on our island. Sophie's father is now 97 and her mother is 92. They and Sophie's son Pierre Louis want justice immediately in this case in Ireland. The French courts convicted a murderer in absentia. On 29 June 2022, An Garda Síochána announced what it called a cold case review. In the month of Sophie's birthday, can the Government intervene with An Garda Síochána to speed up this review and bring the murderer, who is out there at large, to justice in this country and bring this sad tragic case to an end?

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