French probe into Ian Bailey a charade, says Buttimer

Ian Bailey’s solicitor Frank Buttimer has condemned as a “charade” and a “complete sham” the pending investigation by French police of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Speaking to the Irish Examiner, Mr Buttimer accused French authorities of “playing a game” and of hounding his client in an attempt to solve the du Plantier murder case.

“How dare they think that they can come to this country and continue to investigate Mr Bailey, having already unlawfully tried to remove him from this country on foot of a European arrest warrant which the Supreme Court held to be unlawful; and in circumstances where it’s quite clear that the only so-called ‘evidence’ which created the warrant in the first place is the evidence which the government is now reviewing by appointing a commission of inquiry into allegations of police corruption,” he said.