How French detectives will build their case

UP to now, the only connection most people in Ireland might have had with the French judicial system was by way of the bungling police detective Jacques Clouseau in the Pink Panther series.

But that is likely to change as French detectives arrive in Cork on a most serious endeavour.

They are here to interview 31 people regarding the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier at her West Cork holiday home on December 23, 1996.