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00:00Bechang Kanta is due.
00:29to be transferred to a french prison in the next few weeks the justice system in lithuania has
00:34given the green light bertrand kanta flew to lithuania he was a normal passenger a year and
00:39a half later he's taking his return flight as a prisoner bertrand kanta will finish serving his
00:43sentence in france bertrand kanta has returned to france the singer of noir desire has been
00:49transferred to a prison south of toulouse here christina rudy the singer's wife continues to
00:55support him if you really want him to have a chance to rebuild himself you need to leave him
01:04alone and leave us alone too christina rudy is an absolutely essential character in this story
01:14christina rudy she was a champion for him but i'd never blame her because he was the father of her
01:23children and she was protecting them and so i could never bring myself to blame her for
01:31for hiding certain truths
01:35christina rudy's passing is the reason that i first looked into bertrand kanta and what i discovered
01:40is more shocking than i ever could have imagined bertrand's crazy terrible things have happened since
01:47we last spoke christina rudy's story hers is just as sad and terrible as marie trontignan's in fact
01:55there wasn't just one contact case but several contact cases
02:09i was convicted for causing the death of marie trontignan has a very good chance of being granted an early
02:24release in just about a month's time it's very difficult for the victims to understand how a
02:30sentence could be cut in half if you don't give an opportunity like this to a prisoner then prison is
02:35just a place where people become even more broken this judge is responsible for upholding sentences
02:41at the murray detention center in a month he'll be the one to decide whether bertrand kanta will be
02:46approved for this conditional release bertrand kanta he had completed four full years of actual
02:54detainment while serving in prison he filed a request for conditional release which then got examined
03:01i examined it at a hearing in the month of september so he presented his case with his wife by his side
03:09christina radhi during the hearing he came in acting a bit like he was a teenager super casual she asked
03:18questions and took notes in this little notebook she asked what do we do when do we file the request what
03:24do we do about work about housing i examined everything at the hearing and their case was very good
03:31all the criteria for granting the release had been met his behavior had been impeccable in prison
03:40there were good reports following his temporary release and also we checked other information
03:45criteria that was particularly important when releasing someone who had committed a serious crime
03:50experts in psychiatry and experts in psychology came back with very positive reports
03:55i only saw him one time in murray
04:04to me when i saw him there at that time he didn't have the characteristics of a violent man
04:11in my opinion there were a range of factors that led to this tragedy
04:14which were due to each of their respective personalities and as far as i could tell nobody
04:19else had ever complained about bertrand canta being violent
04:26of course my final decision it was reinforced by the notion that this was a crime of passion
04:37this was a crime that took place within the context of so much romantic passion
04:42an excessive amount and so there was no fear at first glance that it could possibly happen again
04:49the sentencing judge decides and i'm not one to usually criticize a court decision
04:55but again there seems to be a certain leniency for a crime of passion which like i said i mean to me
05:02that's just it's incomprehensible i think the idea is to argue that he wouldn't do it again and that
05:08someone who killed his partner he won't do it again because of course since she's dead he can't kill
05:13her again let's just say that he's not in the same category as potential repeat offenders like sexual
05:17predators or those who are pathologically violent but are we really sure that someone who is capable of
05:23killing his partner will never kill again i'm not entirely sure of that
05:31singer bertrand canta left the murray prison in haunts garon tonight where he had been detained
05:35the sentencing judge for his case accepted his request for conditional release after four years
05:40in prison bertrand canta will have served half of his eight-year sentence following the death of marie
05:46trentignon his family and his friends have gathered today at the singer's house when i heard canta had
05:51been released from prison i thought to myself a woman's life isn't worth much four years isn't a long
05:58time at all and the message that sends out is that it's not serious it's not a a murder committing
06:07murder than getting only four years in prison the punishment doesn't fit the crime bertrand canta is
06:14no longer a prisoner he is a free man for the most part the singer is limiting communications with the
06:20media and has appointed his drummer as his spokesperson today he's been released following a decision
06:26directly from the court the same would have been granted for any prisoner not just him honestly he
06:31just wants to be left alone great thanks a lot to me in fact one of the elements that worked in
06:37favor of bertrand canta's release was that he went back to live with his wife christina radi
06:43when i let him out i knew that most importantly the whole family unit would finally be back together
06:50this is a man who killed a woman and he gets sent home to live with another woman
06:59please leave a message after the tone hi mom hi dad it's christina terrible things have happened since
07:08we last spoke it's impossible for me to get out of this safely
07:29at the time bertrand canta and christina radi were officially living together
07:33except they each had their own lives christina lived alone with the children
07:41at that time i was 25 years old i was an au pair at the christina
07:49the house was really unique it was really colorful christina introduced the family she said that there
07:58is alice and milo christina and bertrand lived a separate comb life
08:04bertrand wasn't living there it's only the four of us and their arrangement around the kids was they
08:10both shared the duties of of a parent
08:16for me it looked like a good setup for a divorced family and the mother and the father get on well with
08:23each other at that time christina she was single for a while and the first time i remember her
08:33mentioning francois was in a letter she left at home saying that um she's not home at the moment
08:40because she's dating and she's falling in love with this guy
08:43at the time i no longer believed in love in love at first sight and then it came out of nowhere
09:01my first impression of her was that she was beautiful full of smiles and really likable what
09:07made me laugh was that she was even later than i was i was an hour late and she was an hour and five
09:13minutes late the waiter came to our table and asked what she'd like and she said the same as him
09:20without even knowing what i'd ordered and then i don't know things snowballed from there it was just
09:27love at first sight for the both of us and the rest of the time we were given we spent it together
09:31things moved very quickly very soon after that i asked to get together with her and her children
09:43to see how that would go both children were quite easy going and and open and they liked him it was
09:50really great to see christina being happy and smiling more but there was a big problem with bertrand
09:59because from day to day he was living closer
10:08it was like i stole his toy from the moment he knew that christina was in love with me that
10:11we were both in love well that's when he started sending me emails and also harassing me on the phone
10:20and well emotionally manipulating christina things like that he was jealous for sure
10:27he couldn't stand the thought of christina loving someone else or starting a new life with someone
10:34else
10:37i started noticing that my relationship with christina was becoming very fragile and complicated
10:43she and i sent each other a lot of texts talking was more difficult
10:47she said he controlled everything he was always on her case wanting to know what she was doing
10:56on several occasions she told me that that if he found our texts her life would be at risk
11:02she was afraid afraid of him
11:16one day bertrand decided to bring the family together and bertrand moved in
11:22i could feel the tension between him and christina growing from week to week and the atmosphere became
11:37toxic and and troublesome and they had more and more fights more violent i had some idea what's going on
11:47in her but i was quite too young to really understand i remember asking her why is she's not moving to
11:55hungary with her kids because she has a family in hungary she has an apartment
12:05bertrand had threatened to commit suicide if she left him
12:08my daughter told me everything she told me that all four of them were at the table
12:19and he cut his arm with a knife he wasn't normal
12:29bertrand's crazy
12:32we listened to the message she left and we were stunned
12:35we didn't want to believe what we were hearing he keeps calling it love
12:41but that's not what it is anymore it's become well even just yesterday
12:48i almost lost my life i wasn't able to stop hyperventilating i was that scared
12:58it was so shocking to us we tried to call back right away
13:02but bertrand didn't pick up the phone and we weren't able to reach anybody
13:13i told my husband to call the bordeaux police station because he speaks a bit of french
13:18so that they could check things at the house
13:23but no matter what zini didn't want to report him showing evidence to the police wouldn't help
13:28because bertrand would definitely kill himself and then the children would become orphans there's
13:34nothing i can do it's impossible for me to get out of this safely
13:50as a veteran police officer of course i remember this case it was so symbolic
14:02it was an ordinary sunday calm at around midday we received a phone call from a young boy who said that
14:10he had discovered his mother hanging
14:18i remember that my colleagues they went to the scene
14:25the man of the house came out right then and he introduced himself as bertrand kenthal
14:30the child who called for help his name was milo he was 12
14:42when he got home right at noon he noticed that his father was asleep
14:48and then he went upstairs and that's where he discovered the scene
14:52it was a sight that was horrible for him to see of course he ran back downstairs very quickly and
15:00alerted his dad who told him that it must be some kind of prank but his mom was completely white
15:07and she was hanging there upstairs
15:09and there on a table was a notebook with something written in it
15:25i kept crying for months continuously for months and months really non-stop
15:47honestly i didn't understand i i really didn't
15:49she loved her children so much it wasn't possible
15:59like marie she was young full of life with a future that looks so bright so once again it was
16:11a life cut short
16:20i was shocked and devastated
16:25but her death is is tragic and it's it's just yeah unbelievable
16:34i remember one day christina she came up to talk to me in the street she wanted to tell me something
16:40and i didn't
16:41i didn't realize she wasn't well at all she wasn't well at all
16:50i feel so much guilt enormous guilt
16:54her suicide was hard to understand
16:57she was a fighter something terrible must have happened it wasn't possible
17:01because to me she wasn't depressed she was always so radiant
17:14but tranquinta is at the center of a new tragedy with the suicide yesterday of his former partner
17:19christina ready in bordeaux christina roddy was 41 years old and allegedly killed herself at home an
17:37what really could have happened i should tell you that the letter that was left behind by christina
17:44was two pages she mentioned all these people who she had disagreements with over the years
17:55she also said that well in a certain way she implicated her her husband bertrand
18:01by indicating that he believed he could control her then there's a gap
18:07there were no other indications that explained what could have happened between the two of them
18:12and christina redi did not name just one person she didn't say that one particular person was
18:18the reason why she decided to commit suicide thanks to bertrand's incessant shouting and accusations
18:26soul keeper of pain he's not the only person she names in this letter however she does name him
18:34as one of the potential causes that led to her committing suicide christina radii
18:42she hung herself inside of their family home while he apparently slept it seems like
18:49kanta is always asleep when his wives die
19:01just after the suicide bertrand kanta left with police officers and went to the station to be
19:05interrogated he didn't try to hide from the police just how difficult and combative his relationship
19:13was with christina he tells the police that he had never hit her the investigation concluded at the
19:20end of the day on monday so that means that roughly speaking it only lasted about 30 hours from start to
19:26finish the conclusion that they reached was very straightforward that it was in fact christina in the
19:33end who took her life of her own free will which was supported by the letter that she left behind
19:42he was free bertrand kanta went home a free man
19:50i learned there was no investigation that's extraordinary this guy killed a woman
19:56and now the mother of his children has killed herself upstairs in the same house as him and there's no
20:04investigation the police think no that's normal that's natural really okay
20:10it's important for me to stay anonymous since this relates to medical confidentiality
20:27i work as a temporary employee in the emergency room in a hospital in the bordeaux region
20:32one day i needed to search for some data about a patient in their medical history file and so i went
20:37down and looked for it in the archives while i was searching for this patient's file i came across
20:42a file labeled radhi christina i was curious so i opened it and i read it quickly but i read it
20:52in this file it mentioned that christina radhi had gone to the emergency room so that she could
20:57document injuries she had after an altercation with her partner it was a violent dispute
21:02the doctor documented that christina radhi had a scalp detachment bruises and hematomas the fact that
21:13a scalp detachment was notated most likely means that christina radhi had been very violently grabbed
21:21by the hair or even dragged by the hair we can imagine that it was horrific i remember it said it
21:29wasn't the first time and during observations it was noted that christina radhi cried a lot but she
21:34didn't want to file a report to protect her two children and i remember that these events took place
21:40after vilnius when bertrand quanta returned when he came back and settled into the family home
21:48that means there is a file that proves that bertrand quanta was violent after leaving prison
21:53it was a bombshell because at that time betran quanta was still on conditional release so if christina
22:00had spoken out then he would most likely have been sent back to prison but then she went right back
22:06home to bertrand quanta after she died i remember that i said right away
22:24it's because of him i hope that this time the media will realize that
22:33but once again the media in france they painted this picture of him portraying him as the victim
22:41and people felt sorry for him
22:42and i remember saying to myself this man has lost one true love and then he lost a second love
22:57he's just so unlucky i didn't try to look any further
23:02at that time no one in the press was trying to understand why christina had killed herself
23:07even though she gave us clues in that voicemail the one she left for her parents she talked about
23:13violent acts committed by bertrand quanta that got leaked to several papers
23:17after the death of christina haddie the press started investigating to see if she might also have
23:26been a victim you know i don't know i don't really care i have nothing to say because i don't know
23:31anything that's an artist's private life which doesn't concern me i'm a record label i can talk to you
23:37about anything on the professional side but what happened in private i don't know
23:42so in spite of all that bertrand quanta's image remained intact because since marie trentignon's death
23:48the press campaigns that had been orchestrated were in his favor when he was in prison some newspapers
23:55described him as a model prisoner who was very slowly getting back into music and above all during
24:01his incarceration the band noir desir received a music award for the best musical dvd of the year
24:07as you can imagine this is very special it means so much to all of us then their album sales exploded
24:13it was actually a huge uptick after the case we ended up selling approximately four or five times
24:19more than before while he was in prison bertrand quanta signed a new contract with the record label
24:25universal artists this talented like noir desir are uncommon so at some point yeah as a record label
24:32you hope they'll make a new album when you're a die-hard fan of a band you stay a fan the way
24:39he sings his lyrics moves me whatever else he did is his business we're all just waiting to find out
24:46where they're at and what music they might give us everyone talked about whether the group would get
24:52back together or not we learned today that the band noir desir is splitting up noir desir is finished
25:03the rock band following the departure of the guitarist who mentioned disagreements with bertrand
25:07quanta and a feeling of shame about the current state of the group it was over finished well of course
25:16we were disappointed at the same time we had no idea when the band would make a comeback would they ever
25:21come back it was so painful
25:28over everybody
25:33so no they couldn't do it that was it
25:39what i would have loved personally would be to never hear about this guy again that's all really
25:45unfortunately that wasn't the case
25:56the comeback of the week is bertrand qatar formerly of noir desir who 12 years after the band's last album
26:02has made his return under the name detroit
26:04i remember that lost seagull was completely packed
26:15he sang his new songs and of course all of the greatest hits of noir desir and so bertrand
26:21quanta he triumphed his songs went platinum he completely sold out his run of the zenith so what
26:29do you find this appalling then don't go see him the people who want to go see him go right ahead
26:38seeing him perform again was really something and i think we all loved it it was moving
26:42it was great we're all so happy that we came who can deny that batran is a great artist that aside as
26:52for the human side of him well it's that's something else entirely i always separate the two anyway
27:00these people are just overly sensitive that's just how they are
27:10he doesn't have any consideration for the harm that it does just to see his face
27:19not at all he doesn't give a damn he's above all of it he's this guy who thinks i'm a genius
27:26he pushes it on purpose because he's that spiteful
27:37betran quanta he seems untouchable and at that time i knew christina had been a victim of violence
27:44at the hands of batran quanta after he left prison terrible things have happened
27:50now what i want to know is if he was violent with her before vilness before marie trentino's death
27:57so then i first called people in the music industry mostly from the scene in bordeaux to try to fill in
28:02any gaps in the case no i'm not going to talk to you nobody wanted to talk it's going to be tough in bordeaux
28:10there's a lot of silence over this personally i can't tell you anything and the less people spoke
28:16the more i thought they're hiding something this isn't normal i've signed confidentiality clauses that
28:22completely prevent me from speaking about anything that directly or indirectly concerns the band
28:28or with members christina radi said in her message there were witnesses there's plenty of evidence
28:37there were people in the street our friends they saw him break everything yesterday but everyone
28:42stayed silent and after months of struggling i was ready to throw in the towel
28:47but then a band member from noir désir agreed to see me and to talk to me
29:01i met him in a cafe it was empty and he sat next to me
29:09i asked him if bertrand quanta had ever been violent before marie trentino's death
29:14he asked me to stop recording and then he said to me of course bertrand quanta was violent towards
29:22christina radi before marie trentino's death
29:28he even gave me the names of two women
29:31two of his former girlfriends who had been assaulted before christina radi
29:35one was in 1989 bertrand quanta tried to strangle her so she left
29:44he also told me he's manipulative and toxic
29:52he told me that there had been a collective agreement between the whole band noir désir and
29:58christina radi to lie and cover up acts of violence done by bertrand quanta
30:06and when you play back all of the details
30:10you realize that this testimony confirms that bertrand quanta was able to hide his violence from
30:15everyone
30:18what have i done the judges the press
30:24the police
30:29in 2003 we heard from his wife his previous partners his friends and of course the band members
30:36they all said the same thing bertrand quanta was not a violent man
30:44it feels like we failed in any case we feel like we haven't managed to uncover the full truth
30:55i always suspected it was despicable these musicians
30:59who surrounded him and lied for cantop to save cantop but also to save the band and every single
31:07thing that went into it decided to involve christina and all of these lies they're pieces of
31:12shit yeah that's what i think
31:15when i was preparing to release these revelations i was a bit scared because
31:31bertrand quanta he was still being supported by universal the biggest record label in the world
31:38in the music industry he was still respected yesterday bertrand quanta appeared with celebrity
31:44duel amadou and miriam bertrand quanta didn't disappoint his fans
31:50and despite the fact that two women died he was still a figure who people idolized
31:55for example in 2017 he was on the cover of in rocks which is the leading music magazine in all of france
32:04canta in his own words
32:08yeah i found it shocking
32:09he makes this comeback on the front page as if nothing happened as if he had been rehabilitated
32:17that means that the public is erasing everything that we ever knew about his history of extreme
32:23violence what's really surprising is that in all seven pages of the interview the name marie
32:28trintignant and the name christina rady never came up each one's a bit like the last he talks about
32:35himself there's always this kind of narcissism about him where he's at the center of everything
32:40except that the front page of in rocks came out in october 2017 and in october 2017 what's happening
32:48on the other side of the atlantic in the u.s there's the weinstein case which is exploding
32:53the film producer harvey weinstein has already denied claims of sexual harassment but today
32:59three women accused him of rape that was the big trigger for the me too movement
33:07with the me too movement a new generation of feminists started to emerge
33:11they challenged betran contat's return to the stage
33:21this time society dove into the subject and the debate became heated
33:26are you for or against betran contat's return to the stage this question is divisive
33:36what we're witnessing it's a form of lynching it's not normal for him to be acclaimed admired
33:41almost idolized and me i hate lynching he did something awful and he has to own up to it you don't
33:47kill he's paid his debt to society justice has been served i came for the artist that's all that matters
33:53there is something beyond the law which is called decency and that means retiring from public life
33:59it's not shocking because he's paid his debt but tron contat earned his right to be up there
34:03whoop who
34:04hey tron
34:05hey tron
34:05come on we're talking
34:07you don't want to talk no thanks no just let me get through please
34:11when my article came out
34:19we were in a movement to liberate women's voices but all over social media there was a wave of reactions
34:26that were chauvinistic telling me to shut up and treating me like a hysterical feminist
34:31we have journalist and sophie jeanne who investigated bertrand conta for the point i was invited on a
34:40show to debate his return to the stage and next to me was eric dupont morety a leading barrister you
34:49have the right to not go and see him and so just don't go the second the cameras were off he started
34:55promoting his book and said i don't know anything about the contact case i didn't follow it and things
35:00like that the camera switched back on and then he was convicted for marie's murder he was not for
35:05the murder if you know the law for the hits and injuries that led to her death but without intent
35:10before calling it murder we should use his words but it was murder with undetermined or indirect
35:14that's not true the sentence called it was fatal blows but who cares at that time he was fully immersed
35:19in the media circus but he didn't realize that this was a serious subject violence towards women
35:26and i'm just saying for me it's not about cancelling bertrand conta but when people applaud him on stage
35:32i still think personally it feels incredibly insulting we can't forget marie trintignant and christine
35:41an accountant who served his sentence goes back to accounting but that doesn't have the same
35:46significance at all as canta who once again is a politically engaged singer he's someone who spreads
35:54not only a certain style of music but different social ideas as well which makes his case unforgivable
36:03and then a few months after the article was published bertrand conta sued me for defamation
36:09he attacked passages in the article that were verbatim quotes from anonymous witnesses what he wanted was to
36:23know who had spoken out he really started putting pressure on witnesses to shut them up and some
36:30executives from the record label called members from the band to ask them to refute the article
36:39that was really a full operation to silence the article finally all of his demands ended up being rejected
36:52and years later it's still a subject that really affects me it's personal because speaking out is a
37:01matter of life and death and i say to myself if this story had been told properly if those close to him
37:12had spoken we might have stopped the deaths of two women marie trintignant and christina rady
37:22with marie trintignant it was the same thing the same silence
37:26it took fifteen or twenty years for people to understand that it wasn't just some domestic drama
37:34it wasn't a crime of passion it was femicide a case of extremely serious domestic abuse it took me
37:42time to understand that did it actually open people's eyes do you really think that when every single day
37:51there are women being beaten up it's so no
38:05definitely not
38:09no
38:1315 years after the whole cantamary trintignant affair
38:16in my personal life i met someone who turned out to be violent too and in what was maybe the first
38:25violent episode the first one i experienced we were in a hotel and there was hitting i got slapped
38:33just like in the canta case and i ran away i had some kind of flashback and i said to myself you'll end
38:40up like marie trintignant if you stay if you don't save yourself you'll end up like marie trintignant
38:46marie trintignant saved me in a way i thought if you stay with this guy you'll die me i do not want
38:52that for my daughters i've been through it do you think that i'm here because somebody beat me up no
39:02he was a buffoon the guy who hit me but he's not my problem my problem is that when i went to the police
39:10they said it was my fault
39:17society told me you deserved it look at the clothes you walk around in look at the way you talk
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