French authorities are investigating the death of a man during a live video stream on the Kick platform, where he had regularly been shown enduring violence and humiliation.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors ordered an autopsy and opened an investigation into the death of the man, aged 46, in the village of Contes, north of Nice, on Monday.<\/p>\n
France\u2019s junior minister for AI and digital technology, Clara Chappaz, said Raphael Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, had featured regularly in videos on Kick, where he was physically assaulted or humiliated by co-streamers as viewers watched live.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe death of Jean Pormanove and the violence he suffered are absolutely horrific,\u201d Chappaz wrote on X.<\/p>\n
Kick Fran\u00e7ais said it would co-operate with authorities and was undertaking a review of its French content.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur priority is to protect creators and ensure a safer environment on Kick,\u201d it wrote on X.\u00a0 \u201cAll co-streamers who participated in this live broadcast have been banned pending the ongoing investigation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kick is a live-streaming platform registered in Australia that shares revenue with its content creators.<\/p>\n
Chappaz said a judicial investigation was under way and that she had referred the matter to digital and audiovisual communication regulator Arcom and filed a report to Pharos, France\u2019s internet portal for reporting illicit internet content.<\/p>\n
She also said she had asked Kick for explanations. \u201cThe responsibility of online platforms for dissemination of illegal content is not optional, it is the law,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Yassin Sadouni, a lawyer for one of two co-streamers seen abusing Pormanove, told BFM television the victim had cardiovascular problems and that the violence in the videos was acted. \u201cAll those scenes are just staged, they follow a script,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
French media have shown excerpts of hours-long videos during which Pormanove is seen suffering blows, insults, strangulation, dousing with paint and oil and being shot at with a paintball gun.<\/p>\n
It was not clear from the excerpts whether Pormanove had subjected himself to the violence voluntarily or was forced to endure it, nor whether the action was real or staged.<\/p>\n
Drake and US streamer Adin Ross have reportedly agreed to take care of the funeral costs, as the pair have worked on charity streams together in the past.<\/p>\n
“This is horrible and disgusting. Whoever was apart [sic] of this deserves to face severe consequences. I just spoke with drake. Drake and I will be covering the funeral costs , this won\u2019t bring his life back, it\u2019s the least we can do. Prayers go out to Jean\u2019s family,” Ross wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French authorities are investigating the death of a man during a live video stream on the Kick platform,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,1201,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,1202,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-13003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-court-and-crime","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-politics-and-analysis","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}