Kendji Girac is “out of the woods” after his gunshot wound to the chest

Singer Kendji Girac, shot Monday in still unclear circumstances, is “doing well” and is “out of the woods,” his manager said on Tuesday, which should allow investigators to hear him as soon as possible, according to a source close to the case. Hakim Nassouh, manager of the winner of the show The Voice in 2014, explained to AFP that he was able to speak on the phone with the 27-year-old young man, still hospitalized on Tuesday. "He spoke to me. He's out of the woods. He is doing well,” he said.

The interpreter of Color Gitano and Andalouse was operated on at the Haut-Lévêque hospital center in Pessac, southwest of Bordeaux, where he was transported early Monday morning “in serious condition, although conscious”. He presented a “bullet wound in the chest” and “protruding at the back”, according to a press release released Monday evening by the Mont-de-Marsan prosecutor Olivier Janson. “The operation went well,” Hakim Nassouh said on Tuesday, adding that the singer’s entourage would communicate “in due time”.

While the investigation was opened on the grounds of “attempted voluntary homicide”, the singer then spoke of an “accidental” shooting, which he himself caused by handling an 11 caliber automatic pistol, purchased shortly beforehand. , according to the prosecution. According to a source close to the investigation, investigative work “continues”, including “hearings”. “Kendji has not yet been interviewed” formally, this source told AFP on Tuesday mid-afternoon. “The sooner the investigators interview him, the faster they move forward, but it depends on his state of health,” she added, emphasizing the importance of waiting for a medical green light for this.

The singer's hearing "will be carried out as soon as his state of health allows it", prosecutor Olivier Janson said on Monday. A concert by the singer, scheduled for Friday in Marseille, has already been canceled, announced on the social network