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1 Kendji found injured on the Travelers’ area
Kendji Girac was found shot and wounded on Monday, around 5:30 a.m., by the gendarmes, in the busy traveler area of Biscarrosse (Landes). He had a “bullet wound in the chest” and “protruding at the back”, according to the prosecution. He was immediately transported to the Haut-Lévêque hospital center in Pessac, southwest of Bordeaux, “in serious condition, although conscious” – his vital prognosis having never been engaged, contrary to what initial sources stated. close to the file. After surgery, he is doing better today.
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2 Weapon found and investigation opened
Initial findings showed that the bullet was “fired from inside the caravan”. The singer was there with his partner and their little daughter. The weapon was found, without a magazine, “on the indication of members of his family”, outside the caravan. Due to the confusion of the testimonies collected, “both on the circumstances of the facts and on the exact place where they occurred” and the movement of the weapon, the Mont-de-Marsan public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation “under the qualification of attempted voluntary homicide”.
Initially, the investigators favored the trail of an “individual act, without the intervention of a third party”, according to sources close to the case. This track echoes the singer’s statements from his hospital bed. He affirmed “that it was a shot that he described as accidental, that he himself caused by handling an 11 caliber automatic pistol”, a Colt 45, “purchased shortly before”, according to the prosecutor. According to a Source close to the case, Kendji Girac told the emergency services that he had bought the weapon in a flea market.
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4 …“impossible” according to the Prosecutor’s Office
The thesis of an accident, supported by the singer, was judged, this Thursday, “impossible” by the prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan Olivier Janson, and this after ballistic expertise of the weapon used, all the safeties of which are “operational”. This is what the magistrate declared during a press conference lasting more than 1h30. “An accident, an inadvertent shooting which is generally extremely unlikely when it comes to a handgun of this nature, is considered impossible in the present case,” declared the magistrate. “All security is operational. (…) A blow cannot go off on its own,” he argued. Likewise, the expert reports are “not compatible” with the hypothesis of a shooting carried out by a third person.
“Barring anything new, this procedure should end with a classification”
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5 “He faked a suicide” and declared “assuming it”
Kendji Girac explained to investigators on Wednesday that he wanted to “simulate a suicide” to scare his partner who was threatening to leave him after an argument, the prosecutor said. “He was very scared when he heard her talking about leaving, he had a moment of panic and wanted to scare her in turn. In a way, he faked a suicide,” the magistrate said. The singer also told investigators that he “takes responsibility for what he did while regretting it extremely deeply.” He maintains that it was a suicide simulation,” said the prosecutor.
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6 Case closed “except for new elements”
And the magistrate clarified: “I explained to him that this explanation was up to him and that the judicial work was stopping. » Olivier Janson suggesting that he was going to close the part of the investigation opened for “attempted homicide”. “Barring anything new, this procedure should end with a classification,” he said, while other investigations will be continued to “find out where this weapon came from.”
“It will surely take several months to regain full possession of his means”
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7 The singer who was very drunk at the time of the incident
Analyzes confirmed that Kendji Girac was heavily alcoholic, more than 2.5 g per liter of blood, and that he had consumed cocaine during an evening and a night of partying. “Tensions arose due to an emerging addiction to alcohol, a subject which generated great tension in the couple,” explained Olivier Janson. A few days ago, sources close to the matter claimed that the singer was “very drunk” at the time of the incident. He would have spent the evening in a bar then at the Biscarrosse casino until it closed at 2 a.m.
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8 “Several months” convalescence
Olivier Janson described the trajectory of the bullet, which passed close to the heart, as “miraculous”. “It will surely take several months to regain full possession of his means,” estimated the magistrate.
