In 2019, a Paris court convicted him in his absence of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
France has failed to get him extradited from Ireland, and he has never been charged here.
Frenchwoman Sophie Tuscan du Plantier was found beaten to death outside her holiday home in Schull in December 1996
Speaking in Dublin today through a translator, Emmanuel Macron says Sophie's death in west Cork was a 'tragedy'.