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The gendarmes were able for the first time to question Kendji Girac about the circumstances of his gunshot wound. They went to ask him questions at the hospital. The hearing lasted several hours.
Kendji Girac facing the police. Doctors gave the green light for the singer’s hearing on Wednesday afternoon, two days after his gunshot wound and his operation at the Haut-Levêque University Hospital in Pessac. Investigators questioned the artist for 3 hours in his hospital room about the circumstances of the incident which occurred in a Traveler reception area in Biscarrosse in the Landes.
Kendji Girac maintained his version of the facts: his injury was due to an accidental shot on his part. A testimony “without substantial modification” compared to his first statements, early Monday morning, to the firefighters who came to take care of him. Before the hearing, the gendarmes in charge of the investigation favored “an individual act, without the intervention of a third party”.
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Witnesses indicated that the singer was in his caravan in which were his partner Soraya and their 3-year-old daughter Eva Alba. The interpreter of “Color Gitano”, “Andalouse” or “Me Quemo” was “very drunk”. He had spent the evening in a bar then at the Biscarrosse casino until it closed at 2 a.m.
The weapon used by Kendji Girac, a Colt 45 type automatic pistol, which was found in a bush, is the subject of an expert assessment. The wounds on the singer’s body and the gunpowder residue on his clothes will shed light on the scenario of his injury. The weapon was allegedly purchased at the La Teste-de-Buch flea market in Gironde, a version damaged by the organizer of the garage sale.
The Mont-de-Marsan public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for “attempted intentional homicide”. The public prosecutor will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. this Thursday afternoon.
