Kendji Girac “faked suicide”, announces the public prosecutor

At the end of four days of investigation, there is now a certainty: Kendji Girac’s firearm injury could not have been accidental. “An accident, an untimely shot, is deemed impossible», announced the public prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan, Olivier Janson, during a press conference this Thursday afternoon, specifying that “the presence of a third party is materially impossible”. According to his partner, the artist, under the influence of alcohol and already prey to suicidal thoughts, “shot himself voluntarily or involuntarily“.

An interlocutor “still not identified”

Monday morning, the SAMU was contacted at 5:24 a.m. by a female interlocutor “who has still not been identified» who calls on the cell phone of the artist’s partner, Soraya Miranda, for an injured man at an area for travelers located on the D652 departmental road, on the road to Parentis-en-Born. At 5:42 a.m., firefighters arrived at this busy area in Biscarosse, south of Arcachon, in the Landes. Emergency services enter the campplunged into darkness, there is apparently no one there“. At the bottom of the camp, they finally discover “a man sitting on a chair outside a caravan, the person in question is in his underwear, only wearing his underwear, he has been visibly moved“.

“The welcome, without being hostile, is quite rough. The people present make it quite difficult for them to make the observations and make the task a little complex.» The firefighters hear that “the injury would have been caused during a test of the weapon» but also consider a homicidal intention, due, among other things, “manifest displacement» of the injured person. The gendarmerie was contacted at 5:38 a.m. by the firefighters and arrived on site around 6 a.m. When they arrived at the camp, “a form of secrecy will mark the start of the investigation, the gendarmes are welcomed and invited to leave as quickly as they arrived“, wishes to emphasize the magistrate.

Once the hearings were carried out, it was attested that on the night of the events, he had drunk a lot and used cocaine and had a succession of arguments with his partner. “He gets angry, hits a wall», Indicates the companion, before she hears a gunshot. “She sees him on his knees, groaning, with a smell of iron», Indicates the prosecutor. During a new audition with the singer, “he no longer says that the shot was fired involuntarily, as initially stated. This impulse wanted to consist of scaring his wife», Underlines the prosecutor. Before clarifying: “In a way, he faked a suicide“.

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