Health of Kendji Girac, verdict on French debt and Queen Nakamura

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The successful singer Kendji Girac came close to death this Monday in Biscarrosse, in the Landes. The bullet he fired in a shooting which, according to him, was a simulated suicide to detain his partner after an argument, passed very close to the heart. The public prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan, Olivier Janson, who held a press conference this Thursday, detailed the singer’s injury:

Kendji Girac suffers from a gunshot wound, it is located near the left nipple and the outlet between the ninth and tenth ribs. […] The bullet passed near the heart, there was a perforation of a lung. The spleen and diaphragm were affected. » »

“The injury could have been much more serious,” he continued. The total incapacity for work, with legal value, was set at 30 days.

The spring verdicts from the rating agencies Moody’s and Fitch on French sovereign debt are expected Friday evening. And not in a great context. In February, the government had to lower expected growth this year from 1.4% to 1%, and announce that it had to urgently find 10 billion in savings in the state budget.

At the end of March, it was the National Institute of Statistics (Insee) which announced that the public deficit had slipped to 5.5% of GDP in 2023 instead of 4.9%. And as Bercy had to recognize that it would still be 5.1% this year, instead of 4.4%, various efforts of 10 billion euros must still be made until the end of the year.

She’s not about to give up her crown. Aya Nakamura left Thursday, as expected, as a queen, with three prizes at the Flames, trophies of rap and its trends. As a symbol, it was she who opened the show at the Châtelet in Paris with a medley of her hits. With, already, a sparkling crown illuminating the decor behind her.

At 28 years old, the most listened to French-speaking singer in the world has logically crushed the competition with the awards for female artist of the year, new pop album and international influence. She had already won the female artist prize last year for the first edition of Les Flammes. In February, the Victoires de la Musique awarded him an equivalent prize, after having previously awarded him an anecdotal distinction.

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