Alcohol, drugs and argument… In a press conference, the public prosecutor detailed at length the facts which led to the bullet wound of Kendji Girac.
The essential :
- We now know the facts leading to the gunshot wound of Kendji Girac, during the night from Sunday to Monday, in a traveler area in Biscarrosse.
- Thursday, the public prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan, Olivier Janson, detailed in detail the unfolding of the facts, the investigation concluding, with the declarations of the singer and his partner in “a simulation of suicide” after this the latter threatened to leave him.
- The 27-year-old artist’s alcohol level was estimated at 2.5 grams per liter of blood at 5 a.m. on the day of the incident and traces of cocaine were also found in his system.
- Kendji Girac, who says he “regrets what happened”, suffers from a perforated lung, the spleen was affected, as well as the diaphragm. A “miraculous” trajectory of the bullet, according to doctors. The singer is still hospitalized.
- His managers say they regret that “the prosecutor disclosed the private and family privacy” of Kendji Girac during his long and (very) detailed press conference.
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10:27 – Suicide blackmail is domestic violence
The public prosecutor declared yesterday during his press conference that the singer Kendji Girac had committed a “simulated suicide”, explaining that he wanted to scare his partner who was threatening to leave him. Let us remember here that suicide blackmail constitutes serious domestic violence that can have significant psychological repercussions.
09:56 – His managers regret the disclosure of “the private and family privacy of Kendji Girac”
“We can only regret that he saw fit to disclose the private and family privacy of Kendji Girac, who is a discreet and reserved man by nature, without necessity in view of the current investigation,” add the two managers. of the singer after the press conference of the public prosecutor.
09:33 – The investigation into Kendji Girac will soon be closed
During his press conference yesterday afternoon, the public prosecutor, Olivier Janson indicated that the proceedings in the Kendji Girac case would soon be closed. To which the singer’s managers reacted: “At the end of the press conference, we note that the public prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan has decided to close his investigation as soon as possible, without any prosecution of any nature whatsoever concerning Kendji Girac”, write Alban Travia and Hakim Nassouh.
04/25/24 – 11:56 p.m. – An environment where “honor prevails”
“It’s an opaque environment, where honor prevails. It’s not for nothing that he directly accused himself of having shot himself,” explained a source close to the singer to the newspaper Le Parisian.
04/25/24 – 11:25 p.m. – His concert for the arrival of the Olympic flame is canceled
A concert by Kendji Girac was to be held in Marseille for the arrival of the Olympic flame. The group Gypsy Kings was chosen to replace him. One of its members is also friends with the singer who is still hospitalized.
04/25/24 – 10:49 p.m. – His wife has not yet visited him in the hospital
According to the magazine Voici, the singer’s wife did not visit him in the hospital, while at least 70 caravans took the road to get closer to the artist who is still hospitalized.
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This Monday morning, BFMTV reveals that singer Kendji Girac was shot and injured during the night. Hit in the chest, he was transported to Bordeaux hospital in critical condition. His vital prognosis, initially compromised, is no longer so and the artist is “out of the woods”, according to those close to him.
During his press conference, given Thursday April 25, Olivier Janson, public prosecutor, revealed that singer Kendji Girac admitted to investigators that he wanted to “simulate a suicide” to scare his partner who was threatening to leave him. The couple describes, each on their own, a context of argument, against a backdrop of alcohol and drug consumption. At the time of the events, Kendji Girac was heavily drunk and traces of cocaine were found in his system.
According to the singer’s first statements, revealed by The Parisian, it would be an “accident”, his bullet wound “would be the consequence of poor handling of the weapon on his part. He would have received a projectile from this weapon purchased the day before at a flea market.” A version that the singer would have maintained during his hearing, Wednesday: for almost three hours, Kendji Girac recounted the facts, going in the direction of an “individual act, without intervention of a third party”, the singer being ” very alcoholic” at the time of the events.
Born in 1996, singer Kendji Girac is one of the most popular French artists of his generation. Powered by the TF1 broadcast The Voice: The most beautiful voiceof which he won season 3 in 2014, he has since made himself known thanks to hits like Andalouse or Je suis fou, he has published five albums in total.
Singer Kendji Girac has always been very discreet about his private life, having, until now, never revealed the identity of his wife, mother of their little daughter. The couple welcomed their first child, a little girl named Eva Alba, at the end of January 2021. This is also one of the rare occasions on which Kendji Girac had publicly mentioned the one who shares his life, on RFM on 10 February 2021: “When I saw my wife giving birth I said ‘ah I’m lucky not to go through that’. It was hard. It’s beautiful but it’s hard” , adding that it was “difficult to be a woman.”
If Kendji Girac had made it a point of honor to keep his private life private, including and especially when it comes to his partner, the statements of the public prosecutor on Thursday April 25, 2024 go in the opposite direction. We know a lot more about Soraya Miranda, the woman who shares the singer’s life and who is not from the traveler community. The couple met in a restaurant in Switzerland in 2014. After six years of long-distance relationship, they moved together in the Paris region in 2020. Together, they have a little girl, Eva Alba, born in January 2021. Soraya Miranda would have mentioned, during his hearings, his difficult integration into his partner’s family and vice versa.