Wounded by gunshot at the end of April in Biscarrosse (Landes), Kendji Girac claimed to have wanted “faking suicide” after a domestic dispute, but he changed his version and the procedure was dismissed, the prosecution announced Monday June 24.
The singer “returned 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 put pressure on His wife “detailed the public prosecutor in Mont-de-Marsan, Olivier Janson, in a press release.
His companion, also heard, 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 been the subject of classification without further action.
In his first statements, the winner of the 2014 edition of The Voice had explained that he had been very afraid to hear his partner talk about leaving and that in a moment of panic, he had in turn wanted to scare her by simulating suicide. The investigations also revealed “the commission of two tortious offences” : acquisition and possession of category B weapons and illicit use of narcotics, according to the same source.
“As Mr. Girac has no criminal record and he was also able to appreciate the seriousness of these offenses (…), he was asked, as an alternative measure to prosecution, to pay two citizen contributions », specified Mr. Janson, referring to the payment of a sum for the benefit of an association helping victims. 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.
