Ian Bailey murder trial: France’s system takes bigger picture into account

They do things differently in France. Yesterday, in his closing speech to the Ian Bailey murder trial in the Cour d’Assises in Paris, prosecutor Jean Pierre Bonthoux had a cut at the Irish Director of Public Prosecutions’ office.

In assessing a case against Bailey, the DPP’s office did not look at the big picture and reviewed the Garda case on a “segmented basis”, M Bonthoux said. The French, in their inquisitorial system, do take the bigger picture into account.