The Failed Justice for Sophie Toscan du Plantier
This Is Monsters
Jiles
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sophie Tasconde-Plantier traveled from France to her holiday home in Ireland, hoping to rest and relax before Christmas. |
| 0:07.5 | Three days later, her neighbor found her lying on the ground outside. |
| 0:11.5 | She had been brutally beaten to death, but despite bragging about |
| 0:15.3 | committing the murder, her killer remains a free man to this day. |
| 0:19.9 | This is monsters. You're going to. On December 19, 19, 1996, Sophie Toscond de Plantier and her husband Daniel Tascond de Plantier were attending a Christmas party in Paris. |
| 0:55.2 | It was held at Le Bandouche a popular Paris venue and hosted by Unifranz, an organization that promoted |
| 1:01.7 | French films. |
| 1:03.0 | Daniel, who was renowned as a film producer, was Unifranz's chairman. |
| 1:07.0 | Sophie had also worked for Unifranz in the past |
| 1:10.0 | before she left to follow her dream of producing television documentaries. |
| 1:14.0 | The couple spent the night talking to guests, including influential filmmakers and actors. |
| 1:20.0 | Several of the people that Sophie talked to at the party remembered that while she seemed full of life and optimistic about her career, |
| 1:26.8 | she told them that she was exhausted. She'd only just come home from Acapoco where she had been attending a film festival. To recover from her stressful time away, |
| 1:36.3 | Sophie had decided to travel to her cottage in West Cork, Ireland for a few days of rest. |
| 1:41.8 | Sophie had grown up in France, but as a teenager she and her family had regularly |
| 1:46.2 | traveled to Ireland for vacations. |
| 1:49.1 | As an adult, Sophie still had a deep love for Ireland, in 1993 she decided to buy a cottage in West |
| 1:55.8 | Cork to use as a holiday home for her and her second husband. |
| 1:59.7 | The cottage was on an isolated piece of land, located in a town known for a quiet life surrounded by rolling green hills and miles of pasture. |
| 2:08.0 | Sophie quickly became a regular visitor to the cottage. |
| 2:11.0 | She often traveled there with her son or invited her friends to stay but this time none of the family or friends she invited were able to come. |
| 2:19.0 | It was too close to Christmas and everybody had already made other plans. |
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