Justice reopens an investigation into voluntary violence against his ex-wife, Krisztina Rady, who committed suicide in 2010

The Bordeaux prosecution announced. Nevertheless, Thursday, July 24, the reopening of an investigation “On possible facts of voluntary violence” Clerk by singer Bertrand Cantat before the death of his ex-wife Krisztina Rady, found hanging at her house on January 10, 2010.

This reopening is notably motivated by the viewing of a documentary distributed by Netflix. Consequently, From Rock Star to killer: the Cantat caseon the singer of Noir Désir condemned justice reopens investigation voluntary violence in 2003 for the murder of Marie Trintignant, said in a press release the public prosecutor of Bordeaux, Renaud Gaudeul, confirming information from RTL radio.

This three episodes film. For example, 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 M^me Rady, all classified without follow -up, adds the magistrate.

In addition to the research file of the causes of open death following justice reopens investigation voluntary violence his death at the marital home in Bordeaux. Moreover, “Three other subsequent procedures” had been opened in 2013, 2014 and 2018, he recalls. Meanwhile, The last two in date had been opened following complaints from the president of the women’s. free association, Yael Mellul, former lawyer for the last companion of Krisztina Rady.

Attached by the agency France-Presse (AFP). she said she was “Very relieved” of “ Radical change of position of the Bordeaux prosecution ” on what she describes “Forced suicide business”. According to her. the anonymous testimony of a nurse in the Netflix documentary is a “New element” Who “Corrobor the fact that Krisztina Rady was the victim of domestic violence”. She added having too “New testimonies to be transmitted to the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office”without specifying its nature.

L’Ilvae by Bertrand played. m^e Antonin Lévy, joined by AFP, said he was not aware of justice reopens investigation voluntary violence the reopening of an investigation into this file.

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 had been quickly put out of the case in the suicide of M^me Advice.

French rock icon. the Bordeaux singer released in 2007 gradually resumed his public activity justice reopens investigation voluntary violence from 2010, with an album and a tour with the group Detroit, followed by the release, in December 2017, of his first solo album Love 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 cries « d’assassin » In Grenoble in March, deleted its 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 theater of the hill, where the first of the play was held Mothercreated and directed by Wajdi Mouawad on music by Bertrand Cantat. The singer published last December a second album with Detroit.