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LThe circumstances of the tragedy are nonetheless unclear. The investigation continues this Tuesday, April 23, the day after the intense gunshot wound of singer Kendji Girac. The French artist was taken care of by emergency providers in Biscarrosse, in Landes, after being hit within the chest, on the evening of Sunday April 21 to Monday April 22.

If he talked about an unintentional capturing, an investigation for tried intentional murder was opened.

A gunshot wound

Emergency providers intervened round 5:30 a.m. Monday morning on the busy Traveler space in Biscarrosse, within the Landes, to deal with Kendji Girac, who had been shot within the chest.

The 27-year-old singer was transported within the early morning, “in serious condition, although conscious”, signifies the general public prosecutor, Olivier Janson. When assist arrived, he had “a bullet wound in the chest” and “protruding at the back”.

Kendji Girac was hospitalized on the Haut-Lévêque hospital middle in Pessac, in Gironde, the place he left the working room within the night, experiences BFMTV. “He is doing well,” a relative summarily informed Agence France-Presse (AFP) upon leaving the hospital.

A home accident talked about by the singer

The singer was briefly interviewed on Monday April 22 by investigators. According to The Parisian, he would have talked about a home accident. According to his personal statements, he by accident injured himself after “mishandling” a firearm, which he purchased the day earlier than at a flea market.

However, he didn’t clarify “neither the circumstances of this purchase nor the reasons which would have led him to handle this weapon in the middle of the night”, signifies the general public prosecutor. The weapon in query, a Colt 45, was present in a ditch within the camp “at the indication of members of his family”. It “is the subject of analysis”.

“It’s not a settling of scores, it’s an accident. He played with the thing and bam,” Emilio, a sixty-year-old who launched himself as his uncle, informed AFP. “We played guitar, quietly. An accident happens anytime, at any hour,” he provides, referring to a night the day earlier than.

An investigation into tried voluntary murder opened

After the tragedy, an investigation was opened and entrusted to the Pau analysis part and the Parentis-en-Born analysis brigade. In a press launch, Olivier Janson signifies that the gendarmes famous “the presence of 80 caravans on the area, all belonging to members of the family or relatives of Kendji Girac. The first testimonies collected seemed confused, both on the circumstances of the facts and on the exact place where they had occurred.

Due to the confusion of the first testimonies collected, the investigation was opened “under the classification of attempted voluntary homicide”.

“Investigations are continuing actively to reconstruct the course of the evening, through the carrying out of technical, ballistic and forensic examinations and the collection of testimonies,” stated the general public prosecutor.

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The singer, revealed within the present The Voice and recognized for his hit songs like “Color Gitano”, was as a consequence of give a live performance in Marseille this Friday April 26. Her efficiency was canceled, the president of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis, Martine Vassal, indicated on X. She needs him a “speedy recovery”.