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00:00This is a damning report for Bertrand Cantat.
00:22The final conclusions from Marie Trantignan's autopsy speak of multiple blows to the face and a fractured nose.
00:29The theory that a slap caused a fatal fall has crumbled.
00:33Bertrand Cantat seems to have been lying.
00:35This is what we are now led to believe based on the autopsy of Marie Trantignan.
00:41The singer's account that she fell onto a radiator has been disproven by the results.
00:46The actress appears to have been the victim of a fatal beating.
00:52You know, when they tell you that...
00:55That she was beaten to death.
01:00Well, you start to imagine it.
01:03And plus, he's this guy who has these enormous hands, like paddles.
01:08With huge rings.
01:09And that's when I went...
01:11I don't want to think about that.
01:13But I'll tell you...
01:18I could have killed him.
01:21I can't get over it.
01:23You know, this is the kind of thing that you never get over.
01:26It all repeats in your mind.
01:29I mean, really, it's been terrible.
01:30The autopsy was released by the press in mid-August.
01:38And for the first time, Bertrand Cantat's image actually suffered.
01:45Marie Trantignan's nose was crushed.
01:48It was literally shattered.
01:50She had lesions on her brain and lesions on both optic nerves.
01:54According to medical examiners, she had shaken baby syndrome.
01:57And it was just Cantat's bare hands that did this to her.
02:03He butchered her.
02:05This girl was slaughtered.
02:07Horrifying.
02:09Lithuania is already requesting the autopsy of Marie Trantignan for investigative purposes.
02:14A French investigation was also requested by the Trantignan family.
02:18The investigation has been given to examining Magistrate Nathalie Touquet and Police Commissioner Jérôme Bonnet.
02:23Thanks to the autopsy, we were able to rule out the theory of I hit her and then she had a bad fall.
02:31But we didn't have the crime scene, which would have been key for us.
02:35What could have happened?
02:36What triggered the beating?
02:38We got authorization to go to Vilnius to interrogate him.
02:43Bertrand Cantat, he must give us some answers.
02:46The examining magistrate of this case arrived this evening in Vilnius.
03:06She arrived in Vilnius with two officers from the crime squad.
03:11And in her luggage, she has the autopsy report of Marie Trantignan.
03:14The magistrate has already asked to meet with Bertrand Cantat and interrogate him about the course of events.
03:21When we arrived in Vilnius, we got our luggage and received a warning.
03:25You'll see, it's crazy.
03:28And sure enough, we were harassed.
03:30We were caught in an overwhelming swarm of cameras.
03:32And they followed us all the way to the ambassador's car.
03:36We all jumped into the car and got out of there as quickly as we could.
03:45The stakes of this new hearing were incredibly high.
03:51Because during the first hearing, Bertrand had lied.
03:54It was so much more serious than we could have ever imagined.
03:57And since Marie Trantignan's death, he had been prosecuted for first-degree murder, risking up to 15 years in prison.
04:09So I wondered what he was going to say to get out of it.
04:17Now that you are here in the presence of these representatives of the French justice system,
04:22are you ready to make your official statement?
04:25The second hearing had very high stakes for us.
04:33We asked new questions, and we really tried to encourage him to tell us the truth.
04:40Since I was the head of the crime squad at the time, I was in Paris.
04:44But it was Commissioner Bonnet who kept me informed about the hearing, which he followed closely.
04:48We interviewed Bertrand Cantat on August 21st, in 2003.
04:57And we knew that, at the second hearing, we absolutely had to present him with the autopsy results.
05:03Then his version of events changed.
05:16You would like to know if you could please show us exactly how you hit her?
05:22Well, I did very, very, very large, big slaps back and forth like this, four or five or six of them, like this and that and this and that, you know?
05:36And then maybe even more, because like I was saying at the time, you know, I won't try it on you.
05:43No.
05:44No, don't.
05:47But it's true that they weren't gentle.
05:50They were big slaps, and I was beside myself, totally out of control.
05:55I wasn't myself in that moment.
05:57It was like an out-of-body experience.
05:59And so I slapped her really hard.
06:02They were like big slaps like this with my rings on.
06:05So the fact of the matter is, the whole thing was really, it was quite violent.
06:10Did you do it like this or more like that?
06:14I don't really know, because the slaps just sort of came out of me in that moment, like that, without any sort of planning.
06:22I didn't think about how hard it would be, but I know that it wasn't, they weren't like this.
06:27I know that the hits definitely weren't as hard as that.
06:30Thanks to the autopsy, we got a bit of a confession.
06:33It wasn't enough, it was incomplete, but it was a confession.
06:42I can't.
06:44I just think, I still think that it was my fault.
06:48Sure, you can say that we were both fighting, but still, I hit her.
06:53So I take responsibility for the fact that she died because of me.
07:00What have I done?
07:01Bertrand Cantat admitted that it was his fault.
07:06And more than anything, he cried a lot.
07:08It's, it's absolutely awful, terrible.
07:11And in fact, at that point in time, the headlines said,
07:16Bertrand Cantat's poignant confession.
07:19The first words of the article talked about Bertrand Cantat's tears.
07:23He was described as emaciated.
07:25This is a man who killed a woman, but the tone of the article is empathetic towards him.
07:30And that's exactly when he started to turn the situation around.
07:37At a certain point, it was just a matter of the fact that I was stronger.
07:40It was a problem that it completely overwhelmed me.
07:43It did, it completely took me over.
07:45Yeah, it took over.
07:47During the second hearing, he was already on his way to prison, if I dare say.
07:54And at that point, Bertrand Cantat realizes I might go to trial and get convicted.
07:59So he starts to worry.
08:01And he tries to get out of it by using several defense tactics.
08:04At first, Bertrand Cantat's defense played on the fact that Marie's
08:34behavior could perhaps have been, I won't go so far as to say provocative,
08:39but he was making people question if her behavior could have provoked anger.
08:43Of course, she was screaming too, and then she punched me right in the face.
08:47She hit me.
08:49Until then, I controlled myself, but then I lost it.
08:52I had a split lip on top and other marks, but no one seemed to care.
08:58And I remember that the French lawyer Bertrand Cantat had Olivier Metzner.
09:03He came outside, and he spoke to the press.
09:09Marie had never acted like that.
09:11It was foreign to him.
09:13And his strategy would change everything.
09:17Unfortunately, she hit him first.
09:21She punched me before I hit back, and then she grabbed me.
09:24She grabbed him, and he fell.
09:26By that point, she had completely lost it.
09:30She lost control, and then he lost it too.
09:33The press started to speak about that a lot.
09:35According to the lawyer of Bertrand Cantat,
09:37Marie Chantignan provoked the singer by taking a swing at him first.
09:41And, of course, this made an impact on French citizens.
09:51The autopsy report was basically forgotten,
09:55because the media just kept on repeating the arguments made by Cantat's defense,
10:00which turned the 20 or so hits that were received into self-defense.
10:04After the grief comes anger and outrage.
10:10The media became a battlefield between two prominent lawyers.
10:14The one who defended the Trentignon was Georges Kiesemann.
10:19He's a beast in the media.
10:21He's worked on the most high-profile cases in France.
10:24The Trenton family speaking through their lawyer, Mr. Kiesemann,
10:28gave their version of events today.
10:30No, she was not the one to hit him first.
10:32It is unbelievably unlikely to think that this small young woman,
10:381.65 meters tall, weighing less than 60 kilos,
10:41could have pushed and knocked him to the ground.
10:44This big guy, who's a real athlete, about 1.9 meters tall and weighing 85 kilos,
10:49not to mention that he's trained in several different sports.
10:52Marie was a tiny little thing.
10:54It's impossible that she could have physically taken on Cantat
10:57in any sort of significant way.
10:59And yet his intention was to use the argument of self-defense,
11:04in which he was practically the victim, poor Bertrand Cantat,
11:09who was pushed to the brink to kill Marie without wanting to.
11:13And then, Bertrand Cantat found a new way to defend himself.
11:25And of course, it's not the most elegant way, to say the least.
11:28It's to smear the victim.
11:30So I just couldn't...
11:31Well, I kept on trying to reason with her through counter-arguments by saying,
11:36wait, you can't tell me that there isn't some sort of an imbalance here?
11:40That there isn't a problem?
11:41And she kept saying, go see your wife, go see your wife, go see your wife,
11:44until she was completely, well, hysterical.
11:49She was enraged.
11:51Hysterical.
11:52He didn't think she could be like that.
11:54And she kept on being so hysterical.
11:57She kept fixating on, go see that amazing woman, go see her.
12:00This idea that Marie Trantignon drove Bertrand Cantat crazy
12:04because she was hysterical and pushed him to the edge,
12:07this story persisted and was reported by the press.
12:12In an editorial, we saw them write, words kill.
12:16Words do more harm than hitting, or words that emasculate.
12:20So Marie Trantignon's words hurt more than the beating by Bertrand Cantat.
12:27Frankly, it's shameful.
12:29Cantat had several more lines of defense after that.
12:33Obviously, he was trying to discredit the victim.
12:36I'm not going to give any more attention to Marie's alleged hysteria.
12:40It's the classic excuse from abusive men.
12:43Marie Trantignon's loved ones were mourning at that time.
12:46They didn't want to speak publicly.
12:48So now, Georges Kiegeman was on his own,
12:51which left more space for people close to Bertrand Cantat.
12:55There's a spotlight on this case because of their personalities
12:58and the dynamic between the two of them.
13:01I mean, we have to be careful not to judge too quickly,
13:04investigate conclusions, and psychological profiles must be made.
13:08I'm not saying that I know her.
13:21I don't know Marie Trantignon.
13:23I can't say what she was like.
13:25But what's key for Cantat is loyalty.
13:27He hasn't been married three times.
13:29Wow.
13:29I'm just saying.
13:30Come on, listen.
13:30But you have to say these things.
13:31No, that's ridiculous.
13:32Why not say these things?
13:33Just listen.
13:34They're the facts.
13:34Personally, if I had to plead in favor of Bertrand Cantat in Vilnius,
13:38I'd say it's more of a tragedy than a crime.
13:41Javier Cantat, welcome.
13:42Good evening.
13:43You are the older brother of Bertrand Cantat.
13:45You say that Marie's personality is being rewritten,
13:48but she was capable of being excessive.
13:50Everyone knows that.
13:52Marie had many different lovers,
13:54and she had four children with four fathers, not just three.
13:57So it doesn't do her image justice to portray her as some sort of perfect little girl.
14:02Right.
14:02Which she never was.
14:03They're trying to make us believe that nobody ever saw her get angry with anyone before.
14:09But I don't know.
14:10They never met her then.
14:12Here's an example of complacency from Thierry Ardisson.
14:17He hosts one of the most watched shows in France,
14:19and he decides to let on the brother of Bertrand Cantat
14:22to destroy Marie Trantignant's image when she was just killed by Bertrand's bare hands.
14:29So I knew that Marie Trantignant was a person who was quite complex.
14:36I mean, after all, she was an actress,
14:39so she was very highly strung,
14:41and she was a bit,
14:42not quite hysterical,
14:44but she had a temper.
14:47That's all.
14:50Defenders of Bertrand Cantat
14:51would have done anything to minimize his responsibility.
14:55And this was even more evident
14:57during Bertrand Cantat's last line of defense,
15:00to connect his crime
15:01to his undying love.
15:03I loved her so much,
15:05and she loved me so much,
15:07she attacked me too.
15:08Why did something like this have to happen?
15:11It's something I can't wrap my head around.
15:13I completely lost control,
15:15and she lost control too.
15:16Both of us did at that moment.
15:19It's just such an insane turn of events.
15:22Everyone, if you speak to them,
15:24if you ask anybody,
15:25everybody knows how much we loved each other.
15:27Everybody knows how strong it was.
15:29I hope that when he has finally tried,
15:32it will be for something
15:33that is closer to the truth,
15:34which is a crime of passion.
15:38Cantat's lawyers tried to justify the incident
15:41by calling it a crime of passion.
15:43Without this excessive love,
15:45this tragedy wouldn't have happened.
15:47Because under Lithuanian law,
15:49if the events were categorized in that way,
15:51Bertrand Cantat's sentence could be cut in half.
15:54From there, the French headlines,
15:57they suddenly discussed it as
15:59a crime of passion.
16:01A story of a love that went wrong.
16:14Everyone is calling it an exceptional love story
16:16that became excessive.
16:18It's a beautiful love story
16:19that took a bad turn.
16:20The crime itself seems passionate.
16:22This tragic act occurred
16:24in the middle of a passionate, heated argument.
16:32What was the cause
16:33that pushed both of them there?
16:35What was it that
16:36exacerbated their passion?
16:39No, that doesn't exist.
16:42You don't kill out of love.
16:43That's totally made up.
16:45People need to get that out of their heads.
16:46You kill out of hatred.
16:48The only story
16:49that was being told by the media
16:51was that it was a crime of passion
16:53and that she deserved it.
16:55Boom.
16:57Back in 2003,
17:01well, the newspaper headlines
17:03called it a crime of passion.
17:05So I thought it was a crime of passion.
17:07I didn't understand at the time.
17:09Crime and passion.
17:10Those are two words
17:11that just shouldn't go together.
17:13Period.
17:14The notion of a crime of passion
17:16reflects the world view at that time,
17:18which is that
17:19a great love
17:21must always end tragically.
17:23You get the impression
17:24that the perpetrator
17:25is also a victim
17:26of his own passion.
17:29At the time,
17:30I was so outraged
17:31by this type of treatment.
17:33And so,
17:34I spoke out
17:35in Marie's defense.
17:36Welcome to Tuleman and Parle.
17:39Introducing Muriel Cerf.
17:41Hello, Terry.
17:42Do you know everyone?
17:43No, I don't.
17:44All right.
17:44Hello.
17:45I don't know anyone here.
17:46You must have heard of Leo, though.
17:46I've heard of Leo.
17:47The singer?
17:48You've published a book
17:49with Eckertcher
17:50called Bertrand Cantat
17:52or the Song of the Automatons.
17:53So, in your opinion,
17:54the explanation that you give
17:56for the crime
17:57of Bertrand Cantat
17:58is that the nature of passion
18:00is violent at its core.
18:02Exactly.
18:02The nature of passion
18:03depends on what type of passion
18:04and how we perceive it.
18:06His love wasn't stolen from him.
18:07He killed her.
18:09Of course he killed her.
18:10But please carry on
18:10because I'm interested.
18:11Look, we agree.
18:12Really, I'm very, very interested.
18:13But Bertrand Cantat,
18:14he was madly in love with Marie,
18:15so my book is about passionate love
18:17and what we do with it.
18:20I could only handle
18:21that conversation
18:22by trusting
18:22what came out of my mouth.
18:24All I know is that
18:25to say that Marie
18:27was also somehow
18:28responsible for her own death,
18:29that it was a passion
18:30and love that killed her.
18:32No, love does not kill people.
18:34I know that when Marie died,
18:35the condition of her face
18:37was similar to a victim
18:38of a motorcycle accident
18:39going 120 kilometers per hour.
18:41And those are the words
18:42of the doctors.
18:43As long as women
18:44accept their fate as victims
18:46in the name of love,
18:47we're fucked.
18:48Oh, you've been robbed
18:49of your love?
18:50But who's the one
18:52who stole his fucking love?
18:53Marie died because he hit her.
18:55Okay.
18:55Fine, you wanted to go there,
18:57but...
18:57During that show,
19:04the only discussion
19:06was about the crime of passion.
19:09For me, that was the catalyst.
19:12I had to speak.
19:14It was insanely unjust.
19:18And after that,
19:20they humiliated me.
19:22I got dragged through the mud.
19:24At the time,
19:25Leo was all the more courageous
19:27because she did it alone.
19:30So she ran the risk
19:32of them saying
19:33that she was also hysterical.
19:36I didn't get what was at stake,
19:38but no one understood at the time.
19:40I thought it was the right thing to do
19:42to defend Marie.
19:44During the second hearing,
20:03another accusation was made
20:05against Bertrand Cantat,
20:07something that really shocked me.
20:09after he completely butchered her
20:20by beating her senseless,
20:21he then put Marie Trentagnon to bed
20:24and did nothing.
20:25The beating he gave her
20:27and the fact that she was unconscious
20:29meant he should have called
20:31for help right away.
20:33But that's not what happened.
20:35When I put her to bed,
20:45I wiped up her blood
20:48and she...
20:49she was asleep.
20:51I patted her face like this,
20:53but it's important to tell you
20:54that she was a very deep sleeper,
20:56especially when she first went to sleep.
20:58You could never wake her up
20:59when she first went to sleep.
21:00I wasn't surprised
21:02I couldn't wake her up.
21:03As you can imagine,
21:04she was sleeping deeply.
21:06What time was it?
21:07I can't tell you exactly,
21:09but maybe...
21:101 a.m.?
21:13It's absolutely impossible
21:19for someone to go to sleep
21:21after being the victim
21:22of such an act of violence
21:24and then somehow
21:25find a way to sleep peacefully.
21:28Think about a boxing match.
21:30Think about how
21:31the boxer falls down in the ring
21:33after being hit.
21:34He's not lying there
21:35getting a nice and restful sleep.
21:37He's knocked out.
21:39I saw all of her blood there
21:41and everything,
21:42so I decided to clean it up.
21:44I did.
21:45I cleaned all of it up.
21:46What a strange reaction.
21:50I can't say that I've really seen this
21:53any other time in my career.
21:54I was distraught.
21:56I paced around in circles.
21:57I didn't know what to do.
21:58Either you flee or...
22:00you call for help.
22:01But just staying put
22:03and not doing anything?
22:05That's a bit strange.
22:06I was distraught
22:07and I thought to myself,
22:09okay, I'll call Samuel.
22:11I mean, Benjetri,
22:12her ex-husband.
22:14I'll call Samuel.
22:15I'm not sure where that came from.
22:17There was some part of me
22:18that I can't even fully explain.
22:20I don't know why I called Samuel,
22:22but, well,
22:24so what did we talk about?
22:25We talked about the children
22:28and other things.
22:29He said,
22:29don't worry.
22:30Marie loves you.
22:31When you're with someone
22:34who doesn't wake up
22:35or is unresponsive,
22:37someone who's bleeding
22:38from their face,
22:40it should be obvious
22:41that you have to do something.
22:43After the call,
22:44I went back into the bedroom.
22:45I thought,
22:46fuck,
22:46she has marks on her face
22:48and everything.
22:48Holy shit.
22:49It was,
22:50I thought to myself,
22:51she can't shoot like this.
22:53You know,
22:53if there's a problem
22:54with her face.
22:55And I had this instinct
22:57to make a call
22:58to Vincent Trintignon
22:59because he was the first AD
23:01on the film,
23:01but most importantly,
23:03her brother.
23:04So I called Vincent.
23:06But the person who picked up
23:07was his Lithuanian girlfriend
23:09who speaks French.
23:11It's 4 a.m.
23:14Vincent's phone rings.
23:16I pick up the phone,
23:18ask what's going on,
23:19and then Bertrand says to me,
23:21pass the phone to Vincent.
23:23He told me that
23:25something's happened,
23:27and it's awful.
23:28That's the word he used.
23:29I remember it clearly.
23:31So I woke up Vincent,
23:33and then he left.
23:35He left.
23:43Then Vincent arrived,
23:45and he came up to the apartment.
23:48He immediately said to me,
23:49ah, but what,
23:50what the hell did you both do?
23:52What the,
23:52he insulted me, etc.
23:53It was normal.
23:57And how long did that go on for?
24:00I can't tell you that either,
24:01but it lasted a while.
24:03It went on for a while.
24:05It might have been an hour and a half,
24:07maybe two hours,
24:10and I went back to see Marie
24:12from time to time.
24:14At that point,
24:15Vincent was convinced that,
24:16well,
24:17that she was just sleeping.
24:22What time was it
24:23when Vincent Trentignon made a call
24:25to a doctor?
24:28There was a point a little later on
24:30where at first we thought
24:31she had a small cut on her mouth,
24:33but it just kept bleeding,
24:34and finally we looked at each other
24:36and knew.
24:39We had to call a doctor
24:40to see what was wrong.
24:41What time was this raffling?
24:44What time did you think?
24:44It was sunrise, I think.
24:54Bertrand Kenta?
24:55He knows how hard he hit Marie.
24:58He knows he hurt her
24:59because she became unconscious.
25:01But he didn't call for help.
25:05Staying with the woman
25:06that you're supposed to love
25:08for seven hours
25:09after putting her to bed
25:10and doing nothing to help her?
25:12Any way you look at it,
25:13this constitutes a failure
25:14to help a person at risk.
25:17No.
25:18I didn't intentionally
25:20withhold help from her.
25:21If I realized she needed it,
25:23I would have gotten her help immediately.
25:26In France,
25:27he probably would have received
25:28a heavier sentence.
25:29But in Lithuania,
25:31no one charged him for that.
25:35It's true that he was delayed
25:37in calling emergency services
25:39to get help for her.
25:42Perhaps in that moment,
25:43he wasn't able to fully grasp
25:45the danger.
25:47So,
25:48we didn't charge Kenta with that.
25:51But judging by the autopsy,
25:55this act had to be classified as murder.
25:59The prosecutor determined
26:02that Bertrand Cantat committed murder.
26:05From that point on,
26:06it was decided that
26:07he'd be prosecuted
26:08for first-degree murder.
26:10The consequences for that
26:11are immense.
26:17Bertrand Cantat,
26:18still imprisoned in Vilnius,
26:20will soon learn the extent
26:21of the charges against him
26:22and the date of his trial.
26:25We learned this morning
26:26that the trial of Bertrand Cantat
26:28should start at the end of March
26:29in Lithuania.
26:30According to his lawyer,
26:31the Noir Desir singer
26:32will be tried
26:33for first-degree murder.
26:35The indictment states
26:36that Marie Trentignon
26:37was physically struck
26:3819 times.
26:40At this stage now,
26:42for committing homicide,
26:43in Lithuania,
26:44Bertrand Cantat
26:45could get up to 15 years
26:46in prison.
26:47So it's a lot.
26:48The stakes are enormous.
27:02After eight months,
27:04Nadine Trentignon
27:05has returned to see
27:06Bertrand Cantat
27:07face the judge.
27:09Nadine Trentignon
27:10and her son Vincent
27:10are here
27:11to see Bertrand Cantat
27:12receive a harsh sentence.
27:14For them,
27:15there should be
27:15no extenuating circumstances.
27:17The trial will receive
27:19a lot of media attention.
27:21It doesn't start
27:21for two days,
27:22but according to the crowd
27:23at the airport,
27:24the battle is already underway.
27:26It's obvious that
27:27Bertrand Cantat
27:28never wanted or hoped
27:29for Marie Trentignon
27:30to die.
27:31He still mourns her
27:32to this day,
27:33and he will provide
27:34an explanation this week.
27:35Bertrand Cantat's lawyer
27:36will focus on the passion
27:38that united the couple.
27:40The main goal
27:41of this trial,
27:42above all,
27:43was to get more information
27:44on the case file
27:45about Cantat.
27:46Who was he really?
27:47What I wanted to know
27:49was if Cantat
27:49was a violent man or not.
27:52With his former partners,
27:53had he shown signs
27:54of violence?
27:55Was Marie Trentignon's murder
27:57a moment of madness,
27:58or could it have been
27:59the result
28:00of many violent episodes?
28:05And once again,
28:06the French media
28:07were back on the case.
28:08All the media,
28:10all the TV stations.
28:11150 journalists
28:14who were all drooling
28:16like this,
28:17we're going to sell papers,
28:19we're going to sell papers.
28:20It was horrible,
28:21horrible.
28:23I could see
28:24two groups forming.
28:27On one side of the room,
28:29we had the Trentignon group
28:31with Nadine Trentignon
28:34behind her dark glasses,
28:36Vincent, the brother,
28:37Roman, the son,
28:40her father,
28:41Richard Kulinka,
28:42and Samuel Benchetrit.
28:44I just came here
28:46to say no.
28:47My son's mother
28:48was not hysterical.
28:49It's not true
28:49because I lived with this woman.
28:51She wasn't like that.
28:52This was murder.
28:54It was murder,
28:55not a crime of passion.
28:56You would never do this
28:57to someone you love.
28:58On the other side
28:59was the Cantat group
29:01with Cantat's parents.
29:06I don't feel very well, no.
29:10But I'm holding on
29:11for my son.
29:11Christina Radhi,
29:13Cantat's ex-wife,
29:15and the band Noir Desir.
29:19The atmosphere
29:20was extremely tense,
29:23with good reason
29:24because Bertrand Cantat
29:25was facing 15 years in prison.
29:41Bertrand Cantat was given a chance
29:59to speak at length today,
30:00and he expressed his regrets.
30:02He spoke again
30:04about his relationship
30:05with Marie Trantagnan
30:06and about their love,
30:07which he described
30:08as all-consuming.
30:09He also revisited the events
30:11of that sad evening
30:12on July 26th,
30:13a tragic night
30:14that ended with him
30:15beating Marie Trantagnan.
30:17And then he tried
30:17to explain at the trial
30:19how for six long hours
30:20he did not call for help
30:22for Marie Trantagnan.
30:23At the end of his hearing,
30:25he turned to the family
30:26of Marie Trantagnan.
30:28He spoke directly to them
30:30while crying,
30:31and he said,
30:31I know they won't listen to me,
30:33but I'd like to share
30:34my despair with them
30:35over this situation.
30:36It's unbearable for me
30:37to know how much
30:38they're suffering.
30:40Some people won't admit
30:41the truth.
30:42With no basis,
30:43they would like to think
30:44that Bertrand Cantat
30:45wanted Marie Trantagnan
30:47to die.
30:48And I believe that this morning,
30:49the statements made
30:50at this hearing
30:51have demonstrated
30:52that he never wanted
30:53this death.
30:54In fact,
30:54quite the contrary.
30:56It's easy to ask
30:57for forgiveness.
31:00That's the least
31:01he could do.
31:03I don't care about him
31:04being forgiven.
31:05Seriously.
31:06I don't give a damn.
31:09All I saw
31:10was a coward.
31:12He killed my mother.
31:13There are no excuses.
31:16The least you can do
31:17is apologize to a child
31:19when you kill their mother.
31:21That's what I think.
31:30In the Cantat group,
31:32there was one highly
31:33anticipated testimony
31:34that would be
31:35a deciding factor
31:36in the trial.
31:37It was Christina Radhi,
31:39Cantat's Hungarian ex-wife.
31:42She was there
31:43from the moment
31:44that he was arrested.
31:48Tell us how you're
31:49feeling today.
31:50I'm unhappy.
31:51And Mr. Kajman,
31:52who was the lawyer
31:53for the Trantagnan family,
31:54knew that she'd be
31:55very important.
31:57Christina Radhi
31:58is somebody
31:59who really stands out.
32:01She's a beautiful woman
32:02who is very sure
32:04of herself.
32:05And although she's not
32:06originally from France,
32:08she expresses herself
32:09in French
32:09with a lot of authority.
32:11I don't want to talk
32:12right now.
32:12You must be able
32:13to understand that.
32:15She was with
32:16Bertrand Cantat
32:17for almost 10 years,
32:18more or less.
32:19She's the mother
32:20of his two children.
32:22She's the woman
32:23that he left for Marie.
32:24She's the woman
32:25who was rejected,
32:26betrayed.
32:28The separation from him,
32:30that time in my life
32:31was, from my perspective,
32:33it was excruciatingly painful.
32:36We have no idea
32:38what Christina Radhi
32:39will say.
32:44And above all,
32:45everyone wants to know
32:46whether Bertrand Cantat
32:47was violent
32:48towards her as well.
32:54if he hit her.
32:59What she said
33:00was going to be
33:01absolutely crucial
33:02to the verdict
33:03because we would know
33:05if Bertrand Cantat
33:06was or wasn't
33:07someone who was
33:08inherently violent
33:09towards women in the past
33:10or if this was
33:11the first time.
33:12when she reached
33:21the witness stand,
33:22she stood up
33:23and she said
33:31straight from
33:31the witness stand,
33:36Bertrand Cantat
33:37never hit me.
33:38Christina was
33:41Bertrand Cantat's wife
33:43and the mother
33:43of his children.
33:44She said
33:45he never raised
33:45a hand towards me.
33:50Mr. Cageman,
33:51the lawyer for
33:52Marie Trentignon's family
33:53insisted,
33:54but Christina
33:54was adamant.
33:55I could never have lived
33:56with an abuser.
33:57Christina Radeep
34:08claimed that Cantat
34:10was not a violent
34:11man at all.
34:17She came out
34:19in full support
34:20defending Cantat,
34:22claiming he was
34:23a man who was
34:24level-headed
34:25and incapable
34:26of any acts
34:27of violence.
34:28I am very supportive
34:29of women's rights,
34:30so I could never
34:31have lived with a person
34:32who beat his wife
34:33or even somebody
34:34who didn't fully
34:35live up to the beliefs
34:36that he portrayed
34:37to the general public.
34:42For me,
34:43when I heard
34:43Christina Radeep
34:44in that moment,
34:46I thought to myself,
34:47the debate's over,
34:48the case is closed.
34:53This morning,
34:54the verdict
34:55from the Vilnius
34:55court is in
34:56for Bertrand Cantat
34:57for the murder
34:58of Marie Trentignon.
35:03We see anxiety
35:04in their eyes.
35:06They've been waiting
35:06for this moment
35:07for eight months.
35:11And the verdict
35:12is in.
35:13Bertrand Cantat
35:14has been sentenced
35:15to eight years
35:15in prison.
35:16Eight years in prison?
35:17Eight years in prison
35:18for causing the death
35:19of his partner,
35:20Marie Trentignon.
35:21It's eight years
35:21in prison
35:22for Bertrand Cantat.
35:23The singer
35:25is showing no reaction.
35:26He begged for forgiveness.
35:28But these three judges
35:29decided that his guilt
35:31was indisputable.
35:33Christina Radeep
35:34played a very
35:35significant role
35:36when it came to
35:37reducing Cantat's sentence.
35:43She played a huge role.
35:44She fought
35:46and she helped him.
35:48She did everything.
35:49Yeah.
35:50But Christina called me,
35:52by the way,
35:53for that very reason,
35:55to, well,
35:57basically,
35:58to ask for my help
35:59because she had helped him.
36:02So then,
36:03that's what we did.
36:04We helped get him out.
36:06We helped make sure
36:07that he spent
36:07as little time
36:08in prison as possible.
36:09Christina Radeep
36:12without her testimony,
36:14the sentence for Cantat
36:15would have been
36:15much harsher.
36:17When she described him
36:18as a man
36:19incapable of violence,
36:20she reinforced the idea
36:22that the tragedy
36:23was accidental.
36:25He was convicted
36:26of manslaughter.
36:29But he could have
36:30gotten 15 years.
36:31He only got eight.
36:32Eight years
36:33for the death of a woman
36:34is not enough at all.
36:36It's a sentence
36:37that could be
36:38considered moderate.
36:39But in Paris,
36:41the sentence
36:41would have been
36:42about the same.
36:44And so that's why
36:45I ended up advising
36:46that Nadine
36:47not appeal the sentence.
36:53I'm just so
36:54devastated.
36:58Devastated.
37:00Devastated.
37:03If he spent
37:0420 years in prison,
37:05what difference
37:05would it make?
37:06that still wouldn't
37:09bring anyone back?
37:12Her family
37:13and all her friends.
37:16What do we do?
37:17How do we cope
37:18with it?
37:20He took someone's life.
37:22At the same time,
37:24he also destroyed lives.
37:26How do we manage
37:27all of that?
37:28Another horrible thing
37:40is that when she
37:41spoke out
37:42defending Kantah,
37:44Christina Radee
37:45put herself
37:46in grave danger.
37:47Please leave a message
38:09after the tone.
38:10Hi, Mom.
38:12Hi, Dad.
38:13It's Christina.
38:15I know that we haven't
38:16talked for a very long time.
38:18Terrible things
38:19have happened
38:20since we last spoke.
38:22Um,
38:23Bertrand's crazy.
38:25If those horrible events
38:27back in 2003
38:28didn't happen to me
38:29at that point in time,
38:30well,
38:31it seems like
38:32they're happening
38:33to me now.
38:33Christina Radee
38:34left a message
38:38that was a cry
38:39for help.
38:40This message
38:41was a cry for help.
38:42Yeah.
38:43It's impossible
38:44for me to get
38:45out of this safely.
38:48That's a message
38:48from a woman
38:49who's being terrorized,
38:50who's afraid of dying.
39:03son of a woman
39:05who's being terrorized,
39:06who's being maze
39:20and by hymn,
39:20he's a bit
39:21and by Hercie
39:22and by Hercie
39:22to him,
39:23he's been
39:24in the name
39:24of his life.
39:25He's like,
39:26oh,
39:26man.
39:27He's like,
39:29I'm scared.
39:29I'm scared.
39:30I'm scared.
39:32I'm scared.
39:32I'm scared.