Three days after the gunshot wound suffered by singer Kendji Girac, the investigation is beginning to bear fruit. This Wednesday, April 24 afternoon, the singer, still hospitalized in Pessac, was auditioned. He maintains his version of the accidental shooting but it is above all the origin of the weapon which perplexes the investigators.
It was an announcement that caused astonishment in the world of music. The singer Kendji Girac, revealed on the show The Voice in 2014, was shot and injured on the night of April 21 to 22. Emergency services were reportedly notified around 5:25 a.m. The incident took place in the artist’s trailer, which was then parked in a motorway rest area located in Biscarosse (Landes), recalls The Parisian.
Kendji Girac, one of the most popular French artists, would have received a bullet to the ribcage. It would have pierced the body of the 27-year-old artist and emerged at his back. An injury that could have cost the singer his life Gitano… Fortunately, the artist “ was able to be operated on Monday at the end of the day, outside the intensive care unit since Kendji’s state of health permitted it. The manager explains that he is doing better and that he is even out of the woods. » reported Edgar Becquet, the BFM TV correspondent in Pessac.
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Kendji Girac maintains his version of the accidental shooting
The first ballistic analyzes provided information on this tragic incident. According to the elements of the investigationthe bullet which hit Kendji Girac in the chest, before coming out at his back would have been fired from inside the caravan of the winner of The Voice 2014. It would have in fact pierced the passenger compartment of the vehicle from the insideaccording to the first ballistic expertise.
To find out more, investigators questioned Kendji Girac for three hours in his hospital room this Wednesday, April 24. “Today is the first time that he has been formally heard by the investigators and that this hearing will be useful to the investigation. It is a hearing as a victim which will allow the investigators to have the context.” explained this evening Alexandra Gonzalez, deputy head of the police justice department of BFM TV. At the end of this free hearing, Kendji Girac persisted and signed: it was an accident due to poor handling of the weapon.
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The weapon would not have been purchased at a flea market.
BFM TV collected the testimony of Dominique, the organizer of the Teste de Buch flea market where the singer allegedly bought his firearm. He is very skeptical about the singer’s presence on the scene even though the latter says he bought the weapon in this flea market… “If Kendji Girac had come, I think everyone would know him. There would have been a crowd.” he explained. Still on BFM TV, General François Daoust, former director of the IRCGN and the judicial center of the gendarmerie, gave other useful information about this weapon: “The 11.43 mm caliber Colt 45 was a weapon that accompanied the American army during the Second World War and was widely distributed during airdrops
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“For a long time it was the weapon of the Parisian and Marseille circles. It now has value for collectors (…) There are authorized arms sales but there are also a certain number of weapons sold secretly between amateurs or collectors. (…).” the general said. He also added that if the singer purchased this weapon illicitly, he “can be prosecuted for possession of a prohibited weapon”.
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