Business Sophie Tuscan of Plantier

Sophie Tuscan of Plantier , wife of famous the Producing of cinema French Daniel Toscan of Plantier, was found assassinated the December 23rd 1996 with some steps of its residence of holidays to Schull, in Ireland.

The person

Sophie Tuscan of Plantier, born Sophie Bouniol, the July 28th 1957 (XVe district of Paris in France) and assassinated the December 23rd 1996 with Toormore with ten kilometers of Crookhaven in the County of Cork in (Ireland), was producing television programs French.

The business

Sophie Toscan of Plantier had arrived to Ireland on December 20th, 1996. At the time of this stay, Sophie prepared two projects of evening set of themes for the television channel Arte.

During the two days which preceded its death, Sophie Toscan of Plantier spent her days enters stroll and races at the village of Schull located at 5 km from it.

The evening of its death Sophie Toscan of Plantier which was in slumber wears was awaked by blows violent ones given on his door of kitchen. It lit its bedside lamp, went down to the kitchen and opened the door without being wary and it is on the step of the door that a first dispute would have taken place, its murderer struck it with the face because the police officers found blood on the door, it was that of Sophie, it struggled, scratched it with the face and with the arms bus of the hair were found under its nails. It started to run in the garden, its murderer followed it while striking it several times the body, it put the hand on the head to protect itself but he again struck it cranium, it tore off hair. Arrived at the barrier of the garden the murderer seizes himself of a block of cement and threw it on the face of Sophie.

The assassin baited himself on his victim since the body of Sophie was covered with forty wounds and that it was disfigured.
For the police force, the murderer knew very well the neighborhoods of the house of holidays of Sophie who was in a place isolated and difficult of access because there were very bad roads.

The investigation is difficult because the hour of died of Sophie could not be given because the medical examiner arrived 36 hours later. The weapon which was used to kill forever found Sophie Toscan of Plantier, it would act of a very sharp hatchet because the victim had many wounds with the head. The murderer then made use of a block of cement to complete his victim.

A suspect would have been seen by a witness the evening of the murder to a few meters of the house of Sophie Toscan of Plantier. And this same man would have entrusted to a friend and to a hitch-hiker while saying in particular “I went to see it, she was irritated and I crashed to pieces cranium to him”.

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