France's biggest rock star Bertand Cantat lead singer of the band Noir Desire could be freed from prison this week after serving just half of an eight year sentence for murdering his girlfriend French film star and mother of four Marie Trintignant in 2003.

Cantat was imprisoned in 2004 after a court heard that he had flown into a violent rage and repeatedly punched Trintignant in the head causing her to suffer serious brain injuries and fall into a coma. Doctors performed two operations in an attempt to save her but she died in hospital just five days after the attack.

In a letter to the court Marie's mother Nadine Trintignant stated "His early release will be a worrying signal to all those who are struggling to ensure that violence against women is justly punished,"

Latest figures from La Meute, a French feminist organisation say that one woman dies every three days in France as a result of domestic violence and at least 15,000 a year suffer injuries from violent partners.


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