Du Plantier’s parents arrive in Cork to mark 15th anniversary of death

The elderly parents of murdered French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier arrived in Cork yesterday to mark the 15th anniversary of her brutal death.

Marguerite Bouniol, 85, and her 87-year-old husband Georges touched down at Cork Airport on board an Aer Lingus flight from Paris just before 3.30pm.

Accompanied by Jean Pierre Bloc, from Assoph, the group campaigning for the truth about the murder of Ms du Plantier, and his wife, Marie Paul, they were greeted in the arrivals hall by Françoise Letellier, the honorary French consul in Cork, and Superintendent Liam Horgan, the Garda liaison officer.