The public prosecutor’s office announces the conclusions of the investigation into attempted intentional homicide following the shooting of Kendji Girac.
The essential:
- Singer Kendji Girac remains in hospital, three days after he was shot in a reception area for travelers in Biscarrosse in the Landes on Sunday night.
- At his second hearing, the 27-year-old artist maintained his original statements and reported a domestic accident while handling a weapon. Kendji Girac was reportedly “very drunk” at the time of the incident and there were reports of tensions with his partner.
- As part of the investigation opened into attempted intentional homicide, the public prosecutor’s office must speak this Thursday at 3 p.m.
- Research is still underway to provide new clues about the evening’s scenario, especially the bullet that injured Kendji Girac.
And directly
16:49 – Kendji Girac “will need several months to regain full control of his powers”
“One of his lungs is affected, so he is tired and has difficulty breathing,” explains the public prosecutor, referring to “complete inability to work for 30 days.” And finally: “It will take several months until he has full access to his resources again.”
4:40 p.m. – The bullet was found “in a logical location.”
One of the gray areas that remained to be clarified concerned the bullet that injured Kendji Girac and was found “in a roughly logical place in the ground, but two meters away from an area originally analyzed,” explains the prosecutor.
16:32 – The taboo of suicide in the Traveler community
The entire Kendji Girac affair, be it a faked suicide or a real attempt, must be highlighted by making this subject taboo in the very religious travel community, reminds the Republic’s public prosecutor.
16:23 – What legal consequences?
According to the public prosecutor’s office, two criminal offenses remain in the Kendji Girac case: on the one hand, against “the gun law with the purchase of a regulated weapon” and on the “consumption of narcotics”. He explains: “In court we can consider criminal prosecution. Now criminal law is not limited to the search for a sanction, but also a form of deterrence. From what he says, I have the impression that it would be superfluous – if it were so between life and death – to initiate a process from this point of view. But remember that “the investigation is ongoing,” especially regarding the weapon Kendji Girac received.
16:20 – A message to his fans
In his hearing, Kendji Girac stated that he “regrets everyone who supported him during these years and that he hopes that this event can take place again quickly,” according to the prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan.
16:18 – The thesis of a “simulated suicide” is favored
The prosecutor explains that, taking into account a reconstruction of the facts, “the presence of a third party between him and the caravan wall is objectively excluded, there is no space between the outer wall and Kendji Girac.” The conclusion from this The scenario is as follows: The version of a recording, carried out by a third party is incompatible.” Given the singer’s statements during his second hearing yesterday, “it is a simulated suicide that took place in a way that he had not imagined.” And to conclude: ” Legal work will be halted and it will be up to him and his partner to find resources to move forward from this event.”
16:10 – Kendji Girac “regrets what happened”
In his statements, according to the prosecutor’s office, Kendji Girac said that he regretted what happened. “I did something that doesn’t suit me, it’s not my habit,” said the singer.
4:09 p.m. – “I did that because I was scared,” said Kendji Girac
The public prosecutor’s office explains yesterday’s hearing of Kendji Girac by the investigators. He explains that it was he who shot. “There is no way it was my wife who shot me. I did that because I was afraid (…) when I saw that she was leaving, explained the singer. I wanted her to tell me to stop so she wouldn’t. I do not go. And the prosecutor adds: “He states that he did not pass on this version to his family and that he told them that the blow had started on its own.”
16:06 – Kendji Girac “tired” and “morally lost”
During his second hearing, held yesterday from his hospital bed, Kendji Girac was described as “tired,” having “difficulty breathing” from his gunshot wound, and “morally lost.”
3:59 p.m. – Traces of cocaine found in Kendji Girac’s body
The toxicological analyzes carried out by the investigators estimated the alcohol content in the body of Kendji Girac at “2.5 grams per liter of blood”, which “no longer showed cocaine, but intermediate products that prove that the person concerned has consumed cocaine” ( …) around 2 a.m..”
15:56 – Kendji had “said in the past that he would shoot himself”
The prosecution continues to transcribe the statements of Kendji Girac’s partner, who explains that the singer “had already told him in the past that he would shoot himself or cut his throat during an argument.”
3:54 p.m. – Kendji Girac’s partner talks about an argument
In her statements submitted by the public prosecutor, Kendji Girac’s partner explains that there was an argument between her and her companion on Sunday evening. According to him, the singer returned to the trailer drunk around 3:30 a.m. After waking their daughter several times, the sound rises. “She comes out of the trailer to smoke a cigarette and then she hears the shot,” says the prosecutor. “She finds him on one knee on the ground, there’s blood” and mentions “a smell of iron.”
15:47 – The addictions of Kendji Girac
The prosecutor describes in detail the statements of Soraya, Kendji Girac’s partner, who speaks of “a congenital alcohol addiction”, an “issue that caused great tension among the couple”.
3:36 p.m. – An “impossible accident,” according to the public prosecutor
According to experts, the way the weapon is manufactured is such that an “accident is unlikely.” It is therefore considered “impossible” that Kendji Girac shot without intention. But “since too many third parties subsequently had it in their hands,” it will “no longer be possible to know who manipulated it.”
15:34 – The weapon is “in perfect condition”
According to the ballistics report, the prosecutor explained that the weapon used was a Remington 1911 pistol, a model “very common but less used today.” Although the weapon is in poor condition on the outside, it was judged by experts to be in “perfect working condition”.
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This Monday morning, BFMTV reveals that singer Kendji Girac was shot and injured during the night. He was hit in the chest and transported to Bordeaux hospital in critical condition. His life prognosis, which was initially in jeopardy, is now no longer a given and the artist is “over the mountain,” say people close to him.
During his press conference on Thursday April 25, prosecutor Olivier Janson revealed that singer Kendji Girac admitted to investigators that he wanted to “fake suicide” to scare his partner, who threatened to leave him. The couple each describes a context of argument against the background of alcohol and drug consumption. At the time of the events, Kendji Girac was heavily drunk and traces of cocaine were found in his body.
According to the singer’s first statements, revealed by The Parisian, it would be an “accident” and his gunshot wound “would be the result of poor handling of the weapon on his part. He would have received a projectile from this weapon that he had bought the day before at a flea market. “A version that the singer would have maintained during his hearing on Wednesday: for almost three hours, Kendji Girac recounted the facts, moving towards one “individual act without the intervention of third parties” because the singer is “heavily alcoholic”. at the time of the events.
Born in 1996, singer Kendji Girac is one of the most popular French artists of his generation. Supported by TF1 transmission The voice: The most beautiful voiceHe won the third season in 2014 and has since made a name for himself with hits like “Andalouse” and “Je suis fou” and released a total of five albums.
Singer Kendji Girac has always remained very discreet in his private life and has never revealed the identity of his wife, the mother of their young daughter. The couple welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Eva Alba, in late January 2021. This is also one of the rare occasions where Kendji Girac publicly mentioned the person who shares his life on RFM on February 10, 2021: “When I saw my wife give birth, I said, ‘Oh, me I’m lucky I didn’t go through that’. It was hard. It’s beautiful, but it’s hard,” adding that “being a woman is hard.”
