‘Cat and mouse games’

ALMOST 14 years after the violent death of French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier outside her holiday home near Schull in West Cork, the French authorities are “extending the long reach of their arm” to try to put the man suspected of her murder on trial, the High Court has heard.

Ian Bailey attended the court in Dublin yesterday to fight attempts by the French authorities to extradite him to appear before what his lawyers termed “a talking shop in Paris”.

Lawyers for the former journalist accused the French authorities, who have never formally contacted their client, of engaging in “cat and mouse games” and oppression.