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22-562: Détroit is a French musical duo formed in 2012 by French rock musician Bertrand Cantat and French bass player Pascal Humbert . Pascal Humbert was part of the rock formation Passion Fodder from 1985 to 1991 before they split up and Cantat established his own famous band Noir Désir , whereas Humbert went on to join the American band 16 Horsepower , and later to Lilium and Wovenhand , amongst others. The duo Détroit released their greatly expected début album Horizons on 18 November 2013. It

44-517: A chilling effect where legislation and case law appears to be either inaccessible or beyond comprehension to non-lawyers. Alternatively critics have argued that codes are too rigid and that they fail to provide enough flexibility for the law to be effective. Jurisdictions of many countries, such as Algeria , Argentina , Australia , Austria , Brazil , Canada , Chile , China , Denmark , Egypt , Finland , France , Germany , India , Iran , Israel , Italy , Japan , South Korea , Mexico ,

66-529: A criminal code in England and Wales was a significant project of the Law Commission from 1968 to 2008. Due to the strong tradition of legal precedent in the jurisdiction and consequently the large number of binding legal judgements and ambiguous ' common law offences ', as well as the often inconsistent nature of English law, the creation of a satisfactory code became very difficult. The project

88-607: A fight in a hotel room in Vilnius, Lithuania, following a dispute over a text message. Seven hours later, Trintignant's brother called emergency services to the couple's Vilnius hotel room, as Trintignant had slipped into a deep coma. She died of swelling to the brain several days later in hospital. The post-mortem examination suggested that Cantat had inflicted 19 blows to Trintignant's head, causing irreversible brain damage. In court, Cantat claimed he "slapped" Trintignant four times before putting her to bed. He claimed he had flown into

110-612: A gig in Bordeaux. His re-entry into the public eye vexed women's rights campaigners and victim support groups. On 30 November 2010, Noir Désir announced that it would split up for good. Cantat has continued as a solo musician. In early 2011, Canadian Lebanese playwright Wajdi Mouawad chose Cantat to sing in his production in Montreal of a Sophocles cycle, entitled Chœurs . This sparked public criticism due to Cantat's murder conviction. Politicians proposed to ban Cantat's entry into

132-479: A jealous rage after she received a text message from her husband, Samuel Benchetrit . Trintignant was 41 at the time of her death, and left four young sons. French medical experts at the hearing confirmed Cantat's claim regarding the slapping, as well as his claim that he could not tell that Trintignant was dying. His house was burned down in Moustey. His spouse and his two children initially were supposed to be in

154-515: A musical duo with Pascal Humbert , calling themselves Détroit . Cantat was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques . The son of a navy officer, he spent his childhood in Le Havre . His family moved when he was an adolescent to Bordeaux . At the lycée Saint-Genès, he met Denis Barthe, Serge Teyssot-Gay , and Frédéric Vidalenc, who soon became members of his band. At the height of Noir Désir's success in

176-547: A prison sentence has been served, a criminal with good behavior can be released to serve the rest of his sentence on parole. Cantat was released from the French prison on parole in October 2007, after serving half of his sentence. His early release aroused the anger of women's rights activists and the victim's parents, who had failed to persuade French President Nicolas Sarkozy and French judges to block his early release. On

198-536: A varying extent, on the model code. Title 18 of the United States Code is the criminal code for federal crimes. However, Title 18 does not contain many of the general provisions concerning criminal law that are found in the criminal codes of many so-called "civil law" countries. Criminal codes are generally supported for their introduction of consistency to legal systems and for making the criminal law more accessible to laypeople. A code may help avoid

220-675: The 1990s, Cantat was a prominent figure in French music. Noir Désir is regarded "to have made the history of the French rock scene for three decades". He was known for the quality of his lyrics, charisma, and live performances, often compared to Jim Morrison of the Doors . In 1997, Cantat married Krisztina Rády, an art director of Hungarian descent, with whom he had two children; Milo, born in 1998, and Alice, born in 2003. In 2003, Cantat began an affair with French actress Marie Trintignant . On 26 July of that year, Cantat and Trintignant got in

242-429: The album Chœurs , composed for Mouawad's namesake production with musicians Pascal Humbert , Bernard Falaise , and Alexander MacSween . In November 2013 Cantat released the album Horizons credited to his duo Détroit with Pascal Humbert on Barclay Records label. The first single, titled " Droit dans le Soleil ", had been released on 30 September 2013. As lead artist Featured in *Did not appear in

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264-527: The country, as Canada's immigration legislation bars from entry anyone convicted abroad of a crime which is punishable in Canada by a maximum term of at least 10 years in prison, until at least five years have passed since the end of the complete sentence handed down. Manslaughter carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment in Canada. Cantat, who had been sentenced to eight years in jail in Lithuania in 2004,

286-483: The former frontman of the rock band Noir Désir . In 2003, he was proven guilty without a doubt and convicted of the murder ("murder with indirect intent" – dolus eventualis ) of French actress Marie Trintignant , which occurred in a hotel room in Vilnius . To some controversy, Cantat returned to Noir Désir after his release from prison in 2007, playing with the group until it disbanded in 2010. He subsequently formed

308-574: The higher court to reclassify his crime as manslaughter, and therefore lessen his sentence. Both parties ultimately decided to cancel their appeals, which rendered final the original sentence of eight years. At the request of his lawyers, Cantat was moved from the Lithuanian Lukiškės prison , to a prison near Muret , France, in September 2004. Cantat served four years of his eight-year sentence in prison. According to French law, after half of

330-496: The house at that time, but were in Bordeaux, instead. In March 2004, Cantat was sentenced by Vilnius Regional Court under Article 129 of the Lithuanian Criminal Code to eight years in prison for murder, committed with indirect intent ( dolus eventualis ). The verdict was at first appealed by Marie Trintignant's family, who believed that her killing warranted a harsher sentence, and later by Cantat, who wanted

352-419: The night of 10 January 2010, Cantat's former wife Krisztina Rády Cantat died by suicide. At the time of her death, Bertrand Cantat was present in the house. She was discovered by their children the following day. Shortly before her death, Rády had complained of mental abuse by Cantat. The physical abuse she complained of on the answering machine is that he threw some objects at her, but she never mentioned that he

374-411: The official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts. Criminal Code Criminal codes are relatively common in civil law jurisdictions, which tend to build legal systems around codes and principles which are relatively abstract and apply them on a case-by-case basis. Conversely they are not as common in common law jurisdictions. The proposed introduction of

396-412: Was assaulting her. According to Cantat, Rády's parents had spent a week with him after the suicide. Accused by Yael Mellul , magistrates in Bordeaux investigated Cantat in connection with Rády's suicide, but ultimately decided not to press charges. In October 2010, three months after his probational status of release was lifted and his sentence declared completed, Cantat resumed his musical career with

418-408: Was composed for Wajdi Mouawad 's production of a trilogy from Sophocles titled Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle or just Des Femmes . Bertrand Cantat Bertrand Lucien Bruno Cantat ( French pronunciation: [bɛʁtʁɑ̃ lysjɛ̃ bʁyno kɑ̃ta] , Occitan: [kanˈtat] ; born 5 March 1964) is a French songwriter, singer, and convicted murderer known for being

440-494: Was freed in 2007 after serving half his term. In April 2011, the artistic director of Théâtre du Nouveau Monde , Lorraine Pintal , announced that Cantat would not be performing in Chœurs . Wajdi Mouawad responded to the controversy by publishing an open letter to his three-year-old daughter Aimee in the newspaper Le Devoir , in which he argued for Cantat's right to full reintegration into society. In November 2011, Cantat released

462-543: Was officially abandoned in 2008 although as of 2009 it has been revived. A statutory Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee for Irish criminal law met from 2007 to 2010 and its Draft Criminal Code and Commentary was published in 2011. In the United States, a Model Penal Code exists which is not itself law but which provides the basis for the criminal law of many states. Individual states often choose to make use of criminal codes which are often based, to

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484-714: Was recorded in Vega Studios and produced by Pascal Humbert and Bruno Green. The début release from the album is "Droit dans le soleil" that appeared in the SNEP Top 10 in its first week of release. It has also charted in Belgium's French records market and in Switzerland. The formation of the duo follows the break up of Cantat's band Noir Désir in 2010. The two collaborated in 2011 in the album Chœurs with musicians Bernard Falaise and Alexander MacSween . The music

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