Condemned, imprisoned and then released after having served his sentence, Bertrand Cantat has since tried this dark past behind him, first far from media hustle and bustle, then under the spotlight, on stage, guitar in hand. But the Netflix documentary From Rockstar to killer: the Cantat case, has revived the controversy. The singer who considers to have “Pay his debt” to the company, also made A request to the French.
A very discreet existence, far from looks and the city. For several weeks, Bertrand Cantat has left his apartment in Bordeaux to settle in a house in the Landes, where he saw almost reclusive. In the columns of Paris Matchthe tobacconist of the town explains that“He doesn’t leave him anymore. It is his partner who comes to buy cigarettes. He herself says he is completely depressed, that he doesn’t even want to go to the garden. ” The cause of this depression: the reopening, at the end of July, of the investigation into the suicide of his ex-wife.
Bertrand Cantat again worried by justice
Krisztina Rady died in 2010, seven years after the tragic death of Marie Trintignant under the blows of the singer of Noir Désir. At the time, the suicide of Krisztina Rady had not been the subject of an investigation, but a procedure was opened for “Voluntary violence by spouse”, Justice suspecting Bertrand Cantat for having incited, voluntarily or not, his ex-partner to end his life. This is the broadcast, in recent months, of the Netflix documentary From Rockstar to killeron the Cantat case, revealing new elements concerning this drama, which has indeed prompted justice to launch this procedure.
Sentenced to an eight -year prison sentence, Bertrand Cantat was finally released after spending only four years behind bars. According to his detractors, this is an injustice, given the gravity of the crime he has committed. However, the principal concerned had already expressed himself in the face of the anger which had been intensely manifested against him and had made a request to the media and the French. “I paid the debt to which justice condemned me. I served my pain. I did not benefit from privileges. I wish today, in the same way as any citizen, the right to reintegration. The right to exercise my profession “.
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Bertrand Cantat requests the right to exercise his profession
Bertrand Cantat back on stage?
At 61, Bertrand Cantat, who reformed in 2013 A group named Detroit,, however, knows that he will surely be able to go on stage anymore, no producer being willing to take the risk of organizing a tour. In 2018, the singer and his group had to interrupt their tour after his concert given to ancient Belgium on June 10 following pressures of feminist movements. In addition, the release of L’Anglethe second album of his group Detroit, at the end of 2024, was made in an almost complete media silence.
An album which therefore risks being the last. On July 25, the group published a long message on its Facebook account, evoking the end of the recording sessions of the songs from a new album. “We didn’t know it yet, but We had just closed a parenthesis. Not suddenly, just a shift, like a light down without warning.
We do not know if it is an end or a moult “. Despite his request, it would seem that Bertrand Cantat’s past continues to haunt him and that his desire to resume a normal life never see the light of day.
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Will we see Bertrand Cantat on stage?
