“External pressures”, this theory on the reasons which would have pushed his partner to defend him

Recently, Kendji Girac makes his media return on the occasion of the release of his album Vivre. We were able to see him on the set of Star Academy, after coming to The Voice Kids perform his single If only…. Vianney's friend had not appeared for many months. On April 22, 2024, the singer was in fact involved in an accident: he intentionally shot himself, in the presence of his wife Soraya.

This Wednesday, November 13, 2024, the show Current secrets looked into this matter. Broadcast on W9, it returns after its stop in 2008 with “Kendji Girac: the explosion”. It focuses in particular on the “series of lies” of the artist and on the gray areas which remain despite the classification of the investigation. Many questions remain unanswered, including the reasons which would have pushed his partner to come to his defense shortly after the events.

Kendji Girac: the gray areas of the affair

The number of Current secrets returned to the matter. The gun had disappeared, before reappearing after a video session with Kendji Girac's father and uncle. She was found in a bush next to the trailer. Very quickly out of the situation, the singer pretended to have bought the pistol in a flea market, but no seller offered one. He then spoke of a man who came to sell to him just before the tragedy, but did not remember him enough to be able to offer a description. The problem is that it wasa category B weapon, which can only be possessed by those who have an authorization.

His first version was that of a hazardous handling of the weapon and a shot that went off on its own. However, the artist is used to weapons, he did shooting in a club and even completed an internship within the RAID. Additionally, the gun had safeties. It is then that suspicion fell on his wife, who allegedly tolerated her partner's excesses less and less.

The defense of the singer's partner

On the day of the tragedy, Kendji Girac drank a lot during a lunch with friends, and Soraya left the scene with their daughter Eva. When the singer returned to the caravan, they argued about her schooling, requiring their family to settle down, which goes against their gypsy culture. Faced with the mention of his partner's departure, Kendji Girac would have liked to prevent it: “I wanted her to tell me to stop, and not to leave”. Believing the magazine to be empty, he confided that he had deliberately shot himself. This is what the public prosecutor explained during a press conference, seeing the media excitement pointing the finger at Soraya.

But her words do not all have more to the young woman, who gave an interview to Parisian on May 5, specifying that contrary to what the magistrate had said, Kendji Girac had never blackmailed him into suicide before that night. A speaker from Current secrets asked: would she have suffered external pressure so as not to tarnish the singer's image? Because suicide would be a taboo subject in the Traveler community, due to religion or the supposed “failure” of the family when a person takes their own life. A theory which, however, is not based on any concrete element. No prosecution was brought against Kendji Girac, who underwent medical monitoring for 6 months and committed to donating money to associations of victims of violence.