An accident. Transported to the Pessac hospital center in serious condition, Kendji Girac has not yet been officially interviewed on the facts. But, to the gendarmes who went to his bedside on Monday, the 27-year-old singer confided that he had stupidly shot himself in the chest, with an 11-caliber automatic pistol.
The artist, however, did not detail “neither the circumstances of this purchase, nor the reasons which would have led him to handle this weapon in the middle of the night”, indicated, in a press release, the public prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan which opened an investigation for attempted intentional homicide.
The gendarmes from the Parentis-en-Born research brigade and the Pau research section are trying to “reconstruct the course of the evening, through the carrying out of technical, ballistic and forensic examinations and by the collection of testimonies,” said the magistrate.
The first testimonies collected on site by investigators are “confused”. Investigators are trying to find out where the singer was when the shot went off. The weapon, which had disappeared, was finally found Monday afternoon, at the suggestion of members of the artist’s family, within the busy area in Biscarrosse. It “is the subject of analysis”.
Prints, clothes, socket…
“The weapon will say everything,” explains 20 minutes Yves Gollety, president of the National Chamber of Gunsmiths. “There may be prints on the weapon. It is not yet known whether the shot was fired in a caravan. A round was fired, so a shell casing was ejected and they can find it. The bullet passed through his body, so it must also be found,” he continues.
“If the scene has been frozen, and the experts have all the elements, they will find” what happened, believes Yves Gollety. Experts can also find “powder on the hands” of the shooter. “They will immediately see the person who shot, because there is a flame coming out. If he was the one who shot at point blank range, his clothes will be burned. »
“It’s empty weapons that kill”
It also remains to be seen how the interpreter of Color Gitano And Andalusian was able to obtain this weapon? The singer, revealed by the show “The Voice”, would have told the emergency services that he had bought it in a flea market. “In a flea market, you cannot buy a weapon, it is regulated. Prefectural authorization is required. And buy an automatic weapon, which is classified, and which is also loaded? It seems weird to me,” whispers 20 minutes a gunsmith who wishes to remain anonymous.
He also doesn’t understand how the artist could have injured himself. “To shoot himself in the chest, he still has to have turned the gun around and pointed the barrel at himself. And he pulls the trigger. It’s really strange. »
Yves Gollety concedes that buying a weapon at a flea market or garage sale is prohibited. But sometimes you find something “like a stolen Rolex”. He takes the example of a second-hand dealer “who clears out a house and finds the gun of his resistant grandfather left in a drawer of a bedside table”. A gun that could be sold to someone “who knows nothing about guns.” “Everyone thinks it’s empty, no one has checked it, even though it’s still loaded. And as they say in our profession, it’s empty guns that kill. Everything can be considered. »