Successful singer Kendji Girac, shot and injured on Monday in the south-west of France, explained to investigators that he wanted to “simulate a suicide” to scare his partner who was threatening to leave him after an argument, the president said on Thursday. prosecutor in charge of the case.
“He was very scared when he heard her talking about leaving, he had a moment of panic and in turn wanted to scare her. In a way he faked a suicide,” declared the Mont-Prosecutor prosecutor. de-Marsan (Landes) Olivier Janson Thursday at a press conference.
“He said he takes responsibility for what he did while regretting it very much, he maintains that it is a simulation of suicide,” added the magistrate.
The “miraculous” trajectory of the bullet
The performer of “Color Gitano” and “Andalouse” was shot in the chest on Monday at the Biscarrosse travel area, whose trajectory, passing close to the heart, was described as “miraculous” by the prosecutor . “It will surely take several months to regain full possession of his means,” estimated the magistrate.
Kendji Girac was then hospitalized near Bordeaux. Operated on Monday in Pessac, the singer is “doing well” and is “out of the woods”, according to his entourage. An investigation was immediately launched, due to the unclear circumstances of the incident. The winner of season 3 of “The Voice” was auditioned for several hours on Wednesday.
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Tensions due to alcohol
During the press conference, the prosecutor added that the star had an alcohol level of “2.5 grams per liter of blood” at the time of the shooting.
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“Tensions arose due to an emerging addiction to alcohol, a subject which generated great tension in the couple,” explained Olivier Janson.
The French singer “had already said in the past that he was going to shoot himself or cut his throat during arguments”, according to comments from his partner reported by the prosecutor.
Part of the case closed
“I told him that these explanations belonged to him and that the judicial work stopped, that it was up to him and his partner to find the resources” to overcome this tragedy, argued the prosecutor.
Olivier Janson suggested that he was going to classify 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.”
The “impossible” accident thesis
The magistrate also clarified on Thursday that the assessments are “not compatible” with the hypothesis of a shooting carried out by a third person.
The thesis of an accident, supported by the 27-year-old singer, is also judged “impossible” after ballistic expertise of the weapon used, all the safety features of which are “operational”, declared 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.” “All the safety features are operational. (…) A shot cannot go off on its own,” he argued.
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