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French Authorities Open Domestic Violence Inquiry Over Cantat Ex-Wife’s 2010 Death

The Bordeaux prosecutor has launched a new inquiry into her hanging after a Netflix documentary exposed unreported testimonies of Bertrand Cantat’s violence.

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Overview

  • Prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul reopened a preliminary investigation this month to examine whether Cantat deliberately drove Krisztina Rády to suicide through domestic abuse.
  • The Netflix series “Da rockstar a assassino: il caso Cantat” presented fresh accounts, including an anonymous nurse’s testimony and singer Lio’s statements, detailing a pattern of violence.
  • Rády was found hanged in her Bordeaux home on January 10, 2010, and earlier probes closed by July 2018 cited no signs of physical assault.
  • Lawyer Yael Mellul said she has additional witnesses and evidence to submit that corroborate the abuse scenarios highlighted in the documentary.
  • Bertrand Cantat, jailed in 2003 for fatally beating Marie Trintignant, resumed his music career after release but now faces renewed legal scrutiny over alleged domestic violence.