Wounded by gunshot at the end of April in Biscarrosse (Landes), he claimed to have wanted to “simulate suicide” after a domestic dispute, but Kendji Girac changed his version and the procedure was dismissed, the prosecution announced on Monday.
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The singer “returned to his first statements, indicating that in view of his alcoholism and his cocaine intake, he was not aware of what he was doing with this weapon and that he did not want to do pressure on his partner,” detailed the public prosecutor in Mont-de-Marsan Olivier Janson in a press release.
His partner, also interviewed, indicated “that she did not consider herself a victim of psychological violence”, he added, concluding that the offense of psychological violence, “insufficiently characterized”, had therefore caused the subject to classification without further action.
In his first statements, the winner of the 2014 edition of “The Voice” explained that he was very afraid to hear his partner talk about leaving and that in a moment of panic, he in turn wanted to scare her by simulating a suicide.
The investigations also revealed “the commission of two criminal offenses”: acquisition and possession of a category B weapon and illicit use of narcotics, according to the same source.
“As Mr. Girac has no criminal record and was also able to appreciate the seriousness of these offenses (…), he was asked, as an alternative measure to prosecution, to fulfill two citizen contributions,” said Mr. Janson, referring to the payment of a sum for the benefit of a victim assistance association. The 27-year-old artist also had to provide proof of health care for six months in order to obtain the classification of these procedures.
Kendji Girac was hospitalized on April 22 near Bordeaux for a serious gunshot wound to the chest. According to analyses, he was heavily alcoholic, at more than 2.5 grams per liter of blood, and had consumed cocaine during an evening and a night of partying, during which he notably went to the casino with friends.
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