Singer Kendji Girac was shot and injured in a Traveler reception area in Biscarosse in the Landes. His vital prognosis is no longer in jeopardy.
11:54 – Kendji Girac, from The Voice to popular singer
Kendji Girac became known to the French public by participating in the TF1 show The Voice: The most beautiful voiceof which he won season 3 in 2014. Since then, he has many hits to his credit, such as Color Gitano, Andalusian, Bella, Mama’s eyes in homage to his mother or even Last metro his duo with Gims released in 2020. Kendji Girac has published five albums, the last, The school of lifewas released in November 2022.
11:41 – Concern over the state of health of Kendji Girac
After the announcement of the hospitalization of Kendji Girac early this morning, on social networks, concern is in order. Among hundreds of anonymous people, a few people, like Bernard Montiel who writes: “We are sad and worried for our friend Kendji Girac injured by bullets this morning (…) Come back to us quickly amigo”, writes the TV host on X .
11:33 – What do we know about this Traveler reception area?
Kendji Girac was injured in front of his caravan located on a Traveler reception site in Biscarrosse, in the Landes. According to South Westit has existed for 20 years and has 200 locations, of which around a hundred are currently occupied.
11:24 – Who is the author of the shot that injured Kendji Girac?
Still according to information relayed by BFMTV, investigators are seeking to determine who is the author of the shot which injured Kendji Girac in the chest. Also, they take “swabs”, samples of gunshot residue: one from the singer’s partner, the other from Kendji Girac himself.
11:12 – “Kendji Girac would have wanted to try the weapon in the night”
According to information from BFMTV, which relays the first elements collected by the investigators, the singer wanted to “try” the weapon he had bought the day before in a flea market, in the middle of the night, when the “shot went off, seriously injuring ” the artist.
11:01 – A weapon bought at a flea market?
On his hospital bed, Kendji Girac therefore began to speak to investigators, confiding a few elements to explain the facts which occurred that night and caused him to be shot. The singer mentions, according to BFMTV, “poor handling of the weapon”, which he allegedly “purchased the day before at a flea market.” He would have received “a projectile in the chest with an exit point in the back.”
10:52 – No leads are ruled out by investigators
For now, after the hospitalization of singer Kendji Girac in serious condition – his vital prognosis is no longer in jeopardy, the investigative work is beginning. The instruction was entrusted to the Pau research section and the Parentis-en-Born research brigade, according to franceinfo and “no avenue has been ruled out” to explain what happened last night in this Biscarrosse Traveler reception area, adds South West.
10:41 – What we know about the case
Singer Kendji Girac is therefore hospitalized at Bordeaux University Hospital, after being shot in the chest early this Monday morning. According to initial information, he was at a Traveler reception area in Biscarrosse when the events occurred. The singer’s vital prognosis, having been compromised for a time, is no longer so at the time of writing these lines. Questioned by investigators at the hospital, Kendji Girac affirms for the moment that it was a “domestic accident.”
10:30 – The Traveler reception area closed
According to the newspaper Sud Ouest, the traveler reception area in Biscarrosse, where Kendji Girac was injured last night, is completely cordoned off by the police. The gendarmerie personnel are passing through the area carefully to try to explain the facts.
10:17 – Kendji Girac from the traveler community
Born in Périgueux in 1996, Kendji Girac grew up and still lives today in a gypsy community. It was at a reception area in Biscarrosse, where Travelers were gathered, that he was injured last night. Guest of the show Clique last September, he spoke of his belonging to this community and was annoyed by the clichés circulating about it, particularly on television: “They always show the same thing. At a certain point, people will think that we only do weddings and birthdays There are other things to say There are many artists, good singers, boxers, sportsmen, wonderful footballers. It’s not very visible, it’s a shame.”
10:09 – Kendji Girac talks about a “domestic accident”
According to several media, including Le Parisien and BFMTV, singer Kendji Girac is conscious at Bordeaux University Hospital. Having started to speak to investigators about the case which resulted in him being shot in the chest, he allegedly said, according to a source close to the investigation cited by BFMTV“of a domestic accident.”
10:02 – An “accident” according to Kendji Girac
According to the singer’s first statements, revealed by The Parisianit would ultimately 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.”
09:58 – The identity of Kendji Girac known from the early hours of the day
The gendarmerie was therefore called around 5:30 a.m., early this morning, after a shooting at a Traveler reception area, in Biscarrosse, in the Landes. According to Le Parisien, around twenty people were on the scene and initially claimed “that nothing had happened”. The identity of the victim, who is Kendji Girac, was known around 6:30 a.m.
09:51 – Circumstances of shooting still unknown
For now, according to franceinfo, we do not yet know the circumstances of the facts and the shooting which injured Kendji Girac last night. According to Olivier Janson, public prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan, interviewed by the media tout info, an investigation was opened and entrusted to the Pau research section and the Parentis-en-Born research brigade.
09:46 – What happened last night?
Kendji Girac was therefore shot and injured during the night from Sunday to Monday. The events took place at the Traveler reception area of Biscarrosse, in the Landes. According to franceinfothe police were called around 5:30 a.m. last night.
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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. However, his vital prognosis would no longer be in jeopardy.
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 2020: “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.”