Kendji Girac was briefly shot in the chest in the travel area of Biscarrosse (Landes), on the night of April 21 to 22. Transported to the Pessac hospital in absolute emergency, his vital prognosis was initially in jeopardy, before the situation improved. “He is fine. He is out of the woods,” his manager announced to AFP. The 27-year-old artist was able to speak to investigators for the first time, before being operated on.
He would have declared according to Le Parisien that “the accident would be the consequence of poor handling of the weapon on his part. He would have received a projectile from this weapon purchased the day before at a flea market”. But the second-hand dealers and buyers who participated in this flea market, organized on April 21 in the city center, have a hard time believing this story. “The only weapons I have seen here in 15 years are water guns,” assured a person interviewed by RTL this Wednesday. But where does this weapon come from? In any case, Kendji Girac has just reaffirmed, while he was interviewed this Wednesday in his hospital room at Bordeaux University Hospital for 3 hours by the gendarmes of the Pau Research Section, that it was indeed a question of indeed an error in handling the weapon.
A press conference planned for tomorrow
This is what CNEWS learned from a Source close to the case. We will perhaps have more information on this hearing tomorrow at 3 p.m., during a new press conference by the public prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan, Olivier Janson, which follows the one that it already held Monday evening, during which he announced the opening of an investigation into attempted intentional homicide. Note that yesterday, Kendji Girac’s uncle, aunt and partner were interviewed. They claimed to have hidden the weapon initially, before telling investigators where it was, as reported by BFMTV. But how come the weapon was no longer equipped with its magazine?
Investigators are trying to answer this question. Details that his relatives also revealed during these hearings that he returned at 2:40 a.m. from a casino, drunk, and that his wife told him to go listen to his music in his Porsche. We just had confirmation this Wednesday that he was indeed at a Casino that evening with his family, the one in Mont-de-Marsan to be precise. Finally, note that the results of the first ballistic assessments were released yesterday. They “demonstrate that the bullet having struck the performer of Color Gitano and Andalouse in the ribcage before emerging at the level of his back, pierced the passenger compartment of the caravan from the inside to the outside”.
Currently, nearly 80 caravans are parked near the CHU to support the singer.
