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The Mont-de-Marsan prosecutor Olivier Janson has just held a press conference this Thursday, April 25 at 3 p.m. The one who opened an investigation Monday evening for “attempted voluntary homicide” after initial testimonies deemed “confused” in the Kendji Girac affair, addressed several points, alongside Colonel Henri Vial, commander of the research section of Pau, and Lieutenant-Colonel Bruno Perret, second in command of the Landes departmental gendarmerie group.
He first explained that the Samu was called at 5:24 a.m. for an urgent intervention. It was an unidentified woman who called, using Soraya Miranda’s cell phone, Kendji Girac’s partner. She then took the phone herself to explain the situation. The firefighters arrived at 5:42 a.m. He added that the police were not well received. “A form of omerta” marked the beginning of the investigation according to him. Kendji Girac was waiting for help in his underwear on a chair, but “he was not injured“on this one. We got it”moved“.
Perforation in the lung, affected spleen
The firefighters, “even if it was not their role“, heard “vdifferent versionss” from the people present at the camp. An investigator from the search brigade arrived at 6:35 a.m. He was told that there was nothing to see in the camp. All the people present on site refused to give their identity Kendji Girac was identified as the injured man thanks to the license plate of his caravan and his Porsche Cayenne parked next to it.
The forensic doctor estimated that it was a point-blank shot, carried out a few tens of centimeters from the victim. And not a close-range shot. “Exit hole in the back at the 9th rib and between the 9th and 10th ribs“, “perforation in a lung“, “the affected spleen as well as the diaphragme”, “part of the nipple taken away with the impact“…We now know more about the damage of this impact on the body of the singer who escaped”miraculously” because no vital organ was affected.
Recall of facts
Kendji Girac found himself seriously injured (his life-threatening prognosis was in jeopardy) by a gunshot to the chest during the night from Sunday to last Monday, in a Traveler parking area in Biscarosse (Landes). He was then transported to the hospital (he is still there) in Pessac, in Gironde, where he was operated on. Since then, he has been doing well. He is “out of the woods” his manager told AFP. He gave his version of the facts to investigators for the first time, unofficially, telling them that “the accident would be the consequence of improper handling of a weapon on his part.”
“He would have received a projectile from this weapon purchased the day before at a flea market.” Several testimonies attest that he was “with his wife and daughter in their caravan at the time of the shooting”. And it was confirmed that the shooting was indeed carried out from inside his trailer. On Wednesday, the artist was finally interviewed for almost three hours by investigators from the Pau research section, and maintained his first version.
We also learned that Kendji Girac had gone earlier in the evening of the accident to a casino, with his family. He would have returned to his caravan at 2:40 a.m., finding himself “very alcoholic” at the time of the events, as sources close to the matter indicated to AFP. His wife told him to go listen to his music in his Porsche when he got back. Heard by the investigators, his partner Soraya, as well as his uncle and his aunt, claimed to have initially hidden the weapon which injured the singer, before indicating to the investigators where it was, as reported BFMTV.
Research in progress
This Thursday morning, investigators from the Pau research section (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) returned to the Travelers reception area in Biscarrosse, with the aim of “search for new clues” . Currently, “eight gendarmes and the head of the search section comb the very spot of the singer’s caravan, in particular with metal detectors and a backhoe”. They are of course looking for the bullet and casing, which have not yet been found.
Finally, note that yesterday, while Kendji Girac was still in the hospital, some of his relatives made a strong gesture towards him. They moved with their caravans to put them near the CHU, in a parking area. They all almost left on Wednesday morning.