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\n<\/span><\/p>\nA Montreal theatre’s hiring of a French rock star convicted of manslaughter has sparked a row, with politicians calling for him to be denied entry.<\/p>\n
Theatre du Nouveau Monde has engaged Bertrand Cantat to appear next year in a series of plays by Sophocles.<\/p>\n
Cantat was convicted in 2003 of beating girlfriend Marie Trintignant to death in a Lithuanian hotel room. He was released from prison in 2007.<\/p>\n
Canadian law appears to bar him. The theatre said he had paid for his crime.<\/p>\n
‘Not welcome’<\/span><\/p>\n“It is unacceptable,” said Gerard Deltell, of provincial party Action democratique du Quebec, who proposed a motion in the Quebec provincial legislature calling on the federal government to bar the former singer for Noir Desir.<\/p>\n
“Mr Cantat is not welcome in Quebec.”<\/p>\n
Gilles Duceppe, the leader of the Bloc Quebecois, also condemned the theatre’s choice.<\/p>\n
Josee Verner, a former minister in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, said the party would not allow Cantat to enter the country if it were returned to power in the upcoming 2 May election.<\/p>\n
“There will be no exception made for him under Canadian immigration laws,” Ms Verner said, according to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n
Canada’s immigration act bars from entry anyone convicted abroad of a crime that is punishable in Canada by at least 10 years in prison. Cantat would have faced life in prison had he been convicted of manslaughter in Canada.<\/p>\n
Theatre du Nouveau Monde is Montreal’s largest theatre company. <\/p>\n
The three Sophocles plays, directed by Wajdi Mouawad, are to be performed from 4 May to 6 June 2012.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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