The Bordeaux prosecutor’s office on Thursday reopened a preliminary investigation into former Noir Désir frontman Bertrand Cantat over the 2010 death of his ex-wife, Krisztina Rády. Prosecutor Eric Corbaux said the probe will examine possible “violences volontaires par conjoint” that may have driven Rády, 41, to hang herself at the couple’s home on 10 January 2010 while Cantat slept in another room. Corbaux cited the March 2025 Netflix documentary “Le Cas Cantat,” which includes previously unseen testimony and documents, as the trigger for the decision. Among the material are a seven-minute voicemail Rády left her parents describing alleged abuse, and an emergency-room record detailing injuries consistent with violent assault. These elements do not appear in the four earlier case files, opened in 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2018, all of which were closed without prosecution. Cantat, 61, served four years of an eight-year Lithuanian sentence for the 2003 killing of actress Marie Trintignant and has consistently denied wrongdoing in Rády’s death. Investigators will seek to recover medical records and question new witnesses identified in the documentary; they must also determine whether any acts that emerge are still prosecutable given statutory-limitation rules.