This reopening is notably motivated by the viewing of Netflix’s documentary, “the Cantat case”, containing “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 prosecutor of the Republic of Bordeaux, Renaud Gaudeul, confirming information from RTL radio.
This three episodes film, broadcast from March 27, 2025, contains “several affirmations and testimonies not appearing” in the four procedures already opened on the circumstances of the death of Mrs. Rady, all classified without follow -up, adds the magistrate.
A revealing documentary
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.
The latter said herself “very relieved” of “radical change in the position of the Bordeaux prosecution” 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 Kristina 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.
Controversies and cancellations
Bertrand Cantat’s lawyer, Me Antonin Lévy, said he was not aware of the reopening of an investigation into this file.
Born on August 23, 1968, Kristina 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, just like the tour that follows, 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.
