Prosecutors in Bordeaux, France, reopened an investigation in early July into possible acts of intentional violence committed by rock singer Bertrand Cantat against his wife, Krisztina Rady, who died by suicide in 2010. Prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul announced the decision on Thursday, July 24, in a statement, confirming a report from RTL.

On January 10, 2010, Krisztina Rady, 41, was found hanged in her home in Bordeaux, where she lived with the former frontman of Noir Désir. Cantat, who was present in the house at the time, was quickly cleared of suspicion.

The couple married in 1997 but separated without divorcing when Cantat began a relationship with actress Marie Trintignant in 2002. They reunited after Cantat was released from prison on parole in 2007, following his 2004 conviction of intentional assault resulting in death after Trintignant's death a year earlier in Vilnius. Rady, who had two children with Cantat in 1997 and 2002, always supported the singer.

The decision to revisit the case followed the release of the Netflix documentary De rockstar à tueur. Le cas Cantat (From Rockstar to Killer), available since March. Gaudeul, newly appointed as Bordeaux prosecutor, said, "Watching it led me to review the case file into the causes of death opened after Krisztina Rady's passing. My research allowed me to find three other subsequent investigations, opened in 2013, 2014, and 2018, all closed without further action. After reviewing them, and noting that the Netflix documentary included several claims and testimonies absent from the four aforementioned files, I decided to reopen this case concerning intentional violence."

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