A former winner of France‘s model of The Voice was in hospital on Monday after being shot within the chest, sources acquainted with the case advised AFP.
Singer Kendji Girac was discovered wounded after police have been known as to a traveller web site in Biscarrosse on France’s southwestern coast round 5:30 am (0330 GMT).
Girac was admitted to hospital in Bordeaux however the accidents weren’t life threatening, the sources, who requested to not be named, advised AFP.
The 27-year-old advised first responders that he had unintentionally shot himself whereas tinkering with a Colt 45 automated pistol he had purchased at a junk store, one supply mentioned.
Another supply near the investigation mentioned police weren’t ruling something out of their probe and had not but questioned Girac.
Police locked down the scene of the capturing all through Monday morning however left within the early afternoon, an AFP journalist noticed.
“This isn’t a gangland shooting. It’s an accident. He was playing with the thing and ‘bam’,” a person known as Emilio, who mentioned he was Girac’s uncle, advised AFP on the camp.
“We were quietly playing the guitar… An accident can happen at any time,” mentioned Emilio, who declined to present his surname.
Members of Girac’s household went to Bordeaux’s Haut-Leveque hospital however declined to talk to media.
A supply near the investigation and emergency providers mentioned the singer had by no means been in peril of dying from his wound, as had initially been reported, and that he was aware when first responders arrived.
One supply mentioned an investigation into the capturing had been launched, though the native prosecutors didn’t instantly affirm that.
Girac is the stage identify of Kendji Maille, who received The Voice in 2014 after going viral with a track his uncle printed on YouTube.
He has since offered thousands and thousands of albums, with hits together with “Color Gitano” and “Andalouse” (Andalucia) referencing his Catalan Roma heritage.
Source: www.anews.com.tr