Julian Assange picked the wrong country after he left Sweden!

The French are perfectly within their rights to take us to court over this. Forget about the merits (or lack of them) of this case.

They are simply saying that we have not implemented the laws we agreed to via European treaties we have enacted.

This is the same principle that allowed David Norris to take the State to court in Europe.

has any journalist shown them the report that was made showing the gardai screwing the case and what did the family say?

The fact is that while a tragic murder happened, it should be dealt with by the Irish legal system. What happens if they are successful? If a person gets in a fight with a fight with French person in Cork, they could be tried in Paris.
If the roles were reverse would the Irish government seek the French authorities to hand over a suspect and what would the French authorities say if such a request was made?
If Ireland are forced to hand over a suspect in this case we might as well get rid of the justice department because it’s functions will have been usurped by the EU. On the flip side it will lead to a saving for Ireland as we will not need to finance an independent justice department and Interpol can be the police force.

So from now on Germany will be running the Irish finances and France will be running the judiciary.

If the US tried to do this there would be (justifiable) outrage in Ireland. Any other country in the world would tell them to f**k off and rightly so.

“The Court ruled that Section 21A of the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003, as amended, means people cannot be extradited merely for the purposes of a police investigation”

If this is the case why is Sweden looking for the extradition of Julian Assange, especially given he has not been charged with anything and has offered to answer any questions from the UK.

Back on topic- the parents of Sophie Toscan du Plantier must be serious power players in Parisian & French society. Not only did they get the French government to lean on Irish diplomats to re-open the case (something the average Irish citizen would find next to impossible to achieve) they also leaned on upper levels of management in the Gardai to allow French police come over to west Cork to re-investigate it. It was basically them saying ‘we think the your Irish police are incompetent and we want to send over our French police who know what they are doing’. It takes a lot of power and influence to make something like that happen across national borders. When you thin about it not only were they insulting the Gardai, they were also subverting them. All of which leads me to believe that the duPlantier family have friends in very, very high places.

I do feel sorry for their loss but I am also getting the distinct impression that they are throwing their not insignificant weight around and the Irish government is buckling. The other problem is that if they are people who have their hands on the levers of governmental power in France then there is a good chance they have their hands on the power levers of the French judiciary too – it has become plainly obvious that the duPlantier family are confident they can get a conviction on French soil, otherwise why pursue this line of legal action.

Given that there is no fingerprints or DNA and only circumstantial evidence against Ian Bailey (which is why the Gardai have never charged him) then how do they expect that a French court is going to convict him ? The case against him is very weak but yet they are confident of a conviction – if they can get him on French soil. There is something more to this that we do not know.

The fact of the matter is that the Gardai messed up this case by not preserving the crime scene and her house. Then there was the (proven) collusion between detectives and the Cork state solicitor which now means that Ian Bailey couldn’t get a fair trial and therefore cannot be tried. It is never gong to happen now because he proved his case at the Supreme Court. The du Plantier family need to accept this and move on, it is harsh but they are just setting themselves up for more heartbreak.

They don’t like the laws are here so that are taking Ireland to court over it?

While i do have sympathy with them over what happened, If they don’t like the laws of this country, then tough.

And if they are successful in taking Ireland to court, and then win, then the flood gates will open, Anyone with a legitimate claim can take ANY European country to court over it’s laws.

i must have missed the part where we became a French colony……

The French are making an indictment against our legal system. If the situation were reversed, there is no way the French judiciary would allow for the Irish prosecution of a crime that occurred in their jurisdiction. There is without doubt a level of arrogance with regard to the French authorities attitude to the Irish system of justice. I am not necessarily a fan of Mr. Bailey’s, but how could he be expected to get a fair trial when all of this French legal posturing is predicated on the presumption of his guilt.

I’m not sure about everyone else here but I am happy with our extradition laws. Why should another country have to right to extradite a man from his country when he hasn’t been formally charged?
With all due respect to the family and the French government, back off.

this is evident of an increasing breakdown in respect for the rule of law.

We see Sweden making a big issue over extraditing Assange even though they could come to the UK to question him on accusations he was questioned about and released, but now they want to question him again.

The French police came here and questioned Bailey and there is no forensic or other evidence against him.

Then we have he case of Gary McKinnen in he UK who the US has been trying to get extradited to the USA for almost 10 years now.

Either these governments who tell us we must respect the rule of law, respect it themselves or the whole thing becomes a farce.

Now that the cancer of rendition, which Ireland acquiesed too in their usually cowardly way, was never challanged, it now seems other countries think they too can do what they like with innocent until proven guilty folk.

Is there a specific European treaty that we are not complying with? What are they challenging us on?

And we are looking for justice in Mauritius, Strange how when the shoe is on the other foot, The shit hits the fan!
I say; Justice for the DuPlantier Family is long overdue.
Our laws could do with a huge overhaul in many areas to bring them into the 21st century.

So by this logic. If a German person kills a French person in ireland. The case will be in France with the a defence case then in Germany. What if there are multiple nationalities involved ? On a serious note it is a very dangerous path allow this.

This is and always has been a witch hunt and it is getting more disgusting by the year, the french should be told to f… off and the EU for that matter.

Come to Ireland and get away with anything!

As far as I am aware there isn’t a shred of evidence that Bailey was involved. The one piece of evidence where a woman claimed she saw him near the scene was retracted and the woman claimed the police had put her under pressure. The man is innocent until charged and proven otherwise. The French attitude is absurd. I suspect it’s because the murdered woman was quite famous in France that the French authorities are under so much pressure to keep after Bailey.

when are the investigating cops going to arrested?

Here’s one for ye, if Mr Bailey is innocent, let him go voluntarily to France and face his accusers, surely they won’t find any reason to charge him, and let that be an end to it. What is he afraid of?

very true Mick.

Is Bailey an Irish citizen? If not, then they should appeal to the British courts to have him sent for trial.

The actual court case is irrelevant. As said, if the case is su