From Rockstar to Killer (Netflix)

[MagAmberson]

Anyone watch this 3 part documentary on Netflix? It's about the French rock singer Bertrand Canat and the murder of Marie Tringinant. I recall reading about him a few tears ago but it's absolutely infuriating, the attitudes to domestic abuse and how femicide is excused as a crime of passion. People protecting him because he's the lead singer in a hugely successful band, sympathetic media and fans worshipping him. These events only occurred 20 years ago.

Yeah I watched it. I couldn’t believe the way they kept talking about a crime of passion as if it excused the act itself. He savagely beat that woman to death, and got just a few years. I also felt infuriated with the wife, ad if she’d been honest about him at the trial, the outcome if everything would have changed. He was clearly a deranged, violent, jealous narcissist. And the French public loved him. It wasn’t that long ago but I’d like to think attitudes have changed now since Me Too etc?

I was sympathetic towards her by the end, as there was a history of violence in their relationship before he left her for Marie who knows how much influence he still had over his ex wife. There may have been pressure from the band, the record label. Sadly she's not the first to "stand by her man" and she paid a price for testifying.

For some reason I thought Bertrand had died recently but he's still alive.

Bloody horrifying and all that crime of passion BS. Hopefully things have changed but France still seems to be a terribly sexist society especially given some of the responses around Gisele Pelicot, the local mayor saying well at least it was only rape!

I remember this happening. Some of the media responses were awful. Wow, was it 20 years ago?

Yes it was 2003. Even before the autopsy results the acceptance in the media that it was an accident because she hit her head against a radiator, he admitted to slapping her? It's not like she tripped! It was only after the autopsy that it was clear it was a prolonged beating.

The character assassination afterwards, claiming she was hysterical and somehow her having 4 sons by 4 fathers was remotely relevant. Her poor family.

Sadly I don't think much has changed.