Bertrand Cantat

Bertrand Cantat born 5 March 1964 is a French songwriter singer and musician known for being the former frontman of the rock band Noir Désir In 2003 he was proven guilty without a doubt and convicted of the murder murder with indirect intent dolus eventualis of French actress Marie Trintignant which occurred in a hotel room in Vilnius Cantat returned to Noir Désir after his release from prison in 2007 playing with the group until it disbanded in 2010 He subsequently formed a musical duo with Pascal Humbert calling themselves Détroit Cantat was born in Pau PyrénéesAtlantiques The son of a navy officer he spent his childhood in Le Havre His family moved when he was an adolescent to Bordeaux At the lycée SaintGenès he met Denis Barthe Serge TeyssotGay and Frédéric Vidalenc who soon became members of his band At the height of Noir Désirs success in the 1990s Cantat was a prominent figure in French music Noir Désir is regarded to have made the history of the French rock scene for three decades He was known for the quality of his lyrics charisma and live performances often compared to Jim Morrison of the Doors In 1997 Cantat married Krisztina Rády an art director of Hungarian descent with whom he had two children Milo born in 1998 and Alice born in 2003 In 2002 Cantat began an affair with French actress Marie Trintignant after meeting at his concert In 2003 the two were in Vilnius Lithuania while Trintignant was filming the television movie Colette une femme libre On July 27 local authorities received a call from Trintignants brother Vincent to Cantat and Trintignants Vilnius hotel room According to Cantat the previous night Trintignant received a text from her estranged husband Samuel Benchetrit and the two began arguing In initial interviews with authorities Cantat claimed that she became physical and he hit her in response accidentally knocking her down to hit her head on the radiator He claimed he put her bed around 1AM and called her ex for relationship advice He then called Vincent to come over After reviewing the situation and realizing she would not wake Vincent decided to call the police Trintignant was taken to a local hospital where she had two operations performed After four days severely injured and still in a deep coma her parents had her transferred back to Paris She died of a cerebral edema the following day August 1 Trintignant was 41 at the time of her death and left four young sons Cantat was detained by the police upon their initial arrival where he gave his initial claims of the accident story The postmortem examination suggested that Cantat had inflicted nineteen blows to Trintignants head causing irreversible brain damage A separate French inquiry determined the she died from violent shaking and severe repeated blows In March 2004 Cantat was sentenced by Vilnius Regional Court under Article 129 of the Lithuanian Criminal Code to eight years in prison for murder committed with indirect intent dolus eventualis Cantat served four years of his eightyear sentence in prison Cantat was released from the French prison on parole in October 2007 His parole status was lifted in 2010 Source Article Bertrand Cantat from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30