Seriously injured by gunshot in his caravan at a Traveler reception area in Biscarrosse, in Landes, on the night of Sunday April 21 to Monday April 22, 2024, Kendji Girac explained that he “simulated a suicide” so that his partner “don’t go.” His partner spoke of increasingly recurring tensions.
He first mentioned a “domestic accident” to explain his gunshot wound in his caravan at a Traveler reception area in Biscarrosse, on the night of April 21 to 22, 2024.
During his hearing this Wednesday, April 24, singer Kendji Girac returned to these first statements. The winner of season 3 of The Voice in 2014 explained to investigators that he had a “impulse” For “scare your wife” and says he has “faked suicide”.
“So that she doesn’t leave”
“I wanted to make Soraya hear the sound of the trigger, so that she doesn’t leave”, confided the singer who had 2.5 grams of alcohol per liter of blood on the evening of the tragedy. This version was presented by the public prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan during his press conference on Thursday April 25, 2024.
When the singer aimed at his own chest that night, his partner, Soraya Miranda and their 3-year-old daughter were on the other side of the thin partition.
“I saw he wanted to drink”
To investigators, his very discreet spouse, who has shared the singer’s life since their meeting ten years ago, reported increasingly recurring tensions within the couple, report in particular our colleagues from Parisian.
From the start of the day of the dramatic accident, Soraya Miranda explained that Kendji Girac “was very excited and I saw that he wanted to drink”quoted The Parisian. For several months, the singer has tended to take “increasingly numerous and longer and longer bouts, lasting up to 48 hours during which he did anything”.
“I gave up everything”
“It was the holidays, I gave up everything, I shouldn’t have drunk so much“, said the singer about the drunken meal this Sunday, April 21. When Kendji Girac returns to the family caravan around 2:30 a.m., after a trip to the Biscarosse casino and “two small traces” of cocaine, he is drunk. An argument breaks out between the couple after he wakes up their little daughter.
“There’s no question of missing a day of school.”
Another subject that causes tension: the education of their child. Born in 2021, their daughter Eva Alba will start nursery school at the start of the next school year. Her mother, Soraya Miranda, who is not from the Traveler community, wants the little girl to follow a “classic school curriculum”.
“There’s no way she’s going to miss a day of school. We discussed it with Kendji. He knew it was non-negotiable for me, and so that meant this was the last year we travel.”she clarified, according to the comments reported by the magistrate who mentioned the daily conflict between Kendji Girac and his partner during the press conference of April 25.
