The reopening of the investigation “on possible facts of voluntary violence” committed by singer Bertrand Cantat before the death of his ex-wife Krisztina Rady, found hanging at home on January 10, 2010 is notably motivated by the viewing of Netflix documentary, “the Cantat case”.
We hear there “several affirmations and testimonies not appearing” in the four procedures already opened on the circumstances of the death of Ms. Rady, all classified without follow -up, specifies in a press release the public prosecutor of Bordeaux, Renaud Gaudeul, this Thursday, confirming information from the RTL radio.
A “forced suicide affair”
In addition to the research file of the causes of death open following his death at the marital home in Bordeaux, “three other subsequent procedures” had been opened in 2013, 2014 and 2018, he recalls.
The last two in date had been opened following complaints from the president of the women’s and free association, Yael Mellul, former lawyer for the last companion of Krisztina Rady.
Joined by AFP, she said herself “very relieved” of the “radical change in the position of the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office” on what she describes “a forced suicide affair”.
According to her, the anonymous testimony of a nurse in the Netflix documentary is a “new element” which “corroborates the fact that Krisztina Rady was the victim of domestic violence”. She also added having “new testimonies to transmit to the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office”, without specifying its nature.
In “The Cantat case”, the nurse in question says that Krisztina Rady had passed to the emergency room “following an altercation with his companion, a violent argument” with “Declaration of the scalp and the Blues, hematomes”, which occurred “After Vilnius, when Bertrand Cantat returned to settle in their family home”.
This “most likely means Krisztina Rady was very violently caught by hair or trailled by the hair,” added this nurse, who had consulted by “curiosity” his file in the archives of a hospital in the Bordeaux region where he was temporary.
In 2013, in a survey book, “Bertrand Cantat Marie Trintignant: love to death”, two journalists, Stéphane Bouchet and Frédéric Vézard, mentioned a message of distress left by Krisztina Rady on the answering machine of his parents. She evoked there “hell” that the father of her children made to live, “this nightmare that Bertrand calls love”.
Bertrand Cantat’s lawyer, Me Antonin Lévy, joined by AFP, said he was not aware of the reopening of an investigation into this file.
Sentenced to eight years in prison in Lithuania
Born on August 23, 1968, Krisztina Rady, interpreter of training, woman of letters, theater and translator, had met Bertrand Cantat in 1993, during a festival in Budapest.
Married in 1997, the couple had two children and never divorced even if he separated shortly after the birth of their daughter, the singer who got to know the actress Marie Trintignant.
Sentenced to eight years in prison in Lithuania for fatal blows in 2003 in Vilnius on Marie Trintignant, the singer was quickly put out of the case in the suicide of Mrs. Rady.
French rock icon, the Bordeaux singer released in 2007 gradually resumed his public activity from 2010, with an album and a tour with the Detroit group, followed by the release, in December 2017, of his first solo album “Amor Fati”.
The promotion of this album arouses a controversy, as is the follow -up tour, enamelled with canceled concerts and events of feminist associations.
On June 11, 2018, the singer, welcomed with “assassin” cries in Grenoble in March, suppressed his latest dates planned.
In 2020, he still canceled a show co -written with the novelist Caryl Férey and at the end of 2021, feminist activists tried to block access to the hill theater, where the first of the play “Mother” was held, created and staged by Wajdi Mouawad on music by Bertrand Cantat.
The singer published last December a second album with Detroit.