Published25. April 2024, 3:57 p.m.
France: Kendji Girac shot himself, wanting to scare his wife
The singer had an argument with his partner and allegedly faked suicide, saying he did not know the gun was loaded.
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Michel Pralong
All the safeties on Kendji Girac’s weapon were operational.
AFP
The thesis of an accident, supported by the singer Kendji Girac after his gunshot wound on Monday, is judged “impossible” after ballistic expertise of the weapon used, all the safety features of which are “operational”, declared Thursday the prosecutor of Mont -de-Marsan Olivier Janson.
“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 at a press conference, reports the AFP. “All security is operational. A blow cannot go away on its own,” he argued.
He came close to the worst
The prosecutor said that the firefighters were called by a woman Monday morning at dawn, from the phone of Soraya, Kendji Girac’s partner. When firefighters arrived, they found an injured man sitting on a chair in his boxers outside a trailer. He is taken to hospital. At the camp, those who speak speak of an accident.
The medical examiner will determine that the bullet entered precisely at the height of the left nipple, fired at point blank range. It came out, between the 10th and 11th rib. A lung and the spleen were affected, but neither the heart nor the bones in this 45° trajectory, from top to bottom. The prosecutor will hesitate to mention the word “miraculous”, but will eventually do so.
Arriving on site, the gendarmes received a cold and silent welcome. The scientific experts will have to wait for the return of Soraya, who left with the firefighters, to have the key to Kendji Girac’s caravan. Little mess inside, but a bullet made a hole in the wall, from the inside out. No trace of a weapon, however.
Weapon found in a bush
It will be necessary to insist with Kendji Girac’s father so that he finds someone who indicates that the weapon was thrown in a bush a few dozen meters from the camp. It was found, it was a 1911 model semi-automatic pistol, “in poor condition” but it worked perfectly according to the prosecutor.
No charger, and again, you will have to insist on recovering it, empty, as well as the case. Both belong to the weapon. Unlikely, on the other hand, to have obtained it at a flea market, as the singer said, it would also be illegal, since a permit is required.
He trained in shooting in Switzerland
Testimonies say that Kendji knew how to shoot, that he trained in particular in a shooting club in Switzerland, where he comes regularly since Soraya is Swiss (it was in our country that he met her in a restaurant following a show) and his parents still live there.
The testimonies made it possible to reconstruct the facts: Kendji had arrived in the camp around ten days ago, but without his partner and their 3-year-old daughter. Her parents, in the neighboring trailer, left before the gunshot to find one of their daughters about to give birth. Soraya and their daughter arrived two days before the incident.
On the day of the tragedy, Kendji would have had a late and very drunken lunch, followed by a heavily alcoholic couscous evening. He then went to the casino with his cousins. Soraya explained that for some time he had been drinking heavily and doing coke once or twice a week. She had difficulty integrating among the Travelers and insisted that their daughter never miss a day of school.
He was very drunk
The night of the tragedy, very drunk, he had 2.5 grams of alcohol in his blood, he woke up their daughter when he got home. Unable to take it any longer, Soraya tells him that he will have to choose and that it is either he or she who must leave. He gets angry, punches a wall, then she hears him searching the cupboards, before a gunshot. She finds him sitting against the wall, a wound on his chest.
Kendji Girac will explain to investigators that he had “like an impulse”. He would have wanted to scare his wife and fake a suicide. “We have a shooting deliberately provoked by Kendji Girac” who says he was unaware that the weapon was loaded at the time of the tragedy.
“His version belongs to him and must be linked to the taboo of the question of suicide among Travelers,” adds the prosecutor, who explains that this gesture is not punishable by law. According to the magistrate, Kendji Girac “very strongly regrets” his action.
Out of danger
Kendji Girac also retracted his statements about the weapon allegedly purchased in a flea market. He said he bought it on April 18 from a man visiting the camp for 500 euros.
“Barring any new events, this procedure should be closed,” according to the prosecutor.
The singer is out of danger, but tired. He will need to receive care for several months.