Bertrand Cantat was condemned by justice for having killed the actress Marie Trintignant. If he has been cleared of all suspicion concerning the suicide of Krisztina, his wife and the mother of his children, relatives do not agree. Even less the parents to whom she had sent a final message before killing herself.
On January 10, 2010, Krisztina Rady, then in a relationship with Bertrand Cantatkills himself in their home in the Bordeaux region. Alice and Milo’s motherthe children of the singer, hung herself while Bertrand Cantat slept. A fatal outcome that Krisztina’s relatives fall on the former leader of Noir Désir. If she had publicly affirmed that Bertrand Cantat had never raised his hand on her to avoid a heavy sentence following the Death of Marie Trintignant, behind the scenes, the truth is quite different. She had notably warned Samuel Benchetrit of her violence, saying that he had already sent her to the hospital.
Six months before her act, an audio message left on her parents’ answering machine betrayed Krisztina’s fear and distress. In Black Desirebook by Anne-Sophie Jahn published on March 15 by Flammarion editions, including Point publishes the good sheets, the journalist returns to the terrible words that Krisztina uses when evoking his relationship with Bertrand Cantatconfirming the physical violence of which she was the victim and which she has always denied: “Yesterday, I almost left a tooth there. He threw my phone at me, my glasses. He threw something at me in such a way that my elbow is totally swollen and, unfortunately, a cartilage even broke.”
“Naturally, you might guess that a series of events even more regrettable than that of 2003 took place, because at the time it did not happen to me, while now it happens to me, and already several times I escaped the worst, and then it’s untenable” she confided to the voicemail, saying that children were sometimes witnesses to these terrible facts. “[Ils] can’t take it anymore” she said. Krisztina Rady had even mentioned moving to another country and disappearing.
Bertrand Cantat, “monster anger” with Krisztina
If Krisztina Rady had never publicly admitted the violence that Bertrand Cantat exerted on her, those around her were not fooled. When she came to the parlor to visit the artist condemned following the murder of Marie Trintignant, the appointments were not peaceful: “I attended, like the prisoners and guards, his monster anger in the visiting room once morest his wife, said a former prisoner, witness to their exchanges. She left in tears with the children. He gave her orders: ‘Go buy me this!’ and if she didn’t bring him back…” And it was only with her that Bertrand Cantat behaved in this way: “With his brother or the members of the group who came to see him in the visiting room, he was calm, but with his wife, he was a leader, if things didn’t go as he wanted, he wasn’t happy..” A testimony that confirms the hell experienced by Krisztina.