Rockers Noir Désir split up
French rock band Noir Désir, whose singer Bertrand Cantat was jailed for the manslaughter of his actress girlfriend, has split up, its drummer Denis Barthe said Tuesday.
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Barthe says that Cantat and Noir Désir's bassist agree on the break-up.
It comes after guitarist Serge Teyssot-Gay said Monday he was pulling out of the Bordeaux-based group that was formed in the 1980s and went on to become France's top rock band.
Cantat was convicted of beating his actress girlfriend Marie Trintignant to death in a hotel in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius in 2003.
A Lithuanian court jailed him for eight years, but he was released on parole in 2007.
His ex-wife Krisztina Rady, with whom he had two children, hanged herself at her Bordeaux home in January this year.
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