{"id":358509,"date":"2025-08-20T04:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358509\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:17:10","slug":"french-government-investigating-death-of-man-during-live-stream-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358509\/","title":{"rendered":"French government investigating death of man during live stream | France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Prosecutors in the south of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/france\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> have said they are investigating the death of a 46-year-old man who died during a live streaming event showing him being mistreated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The man \u2013 whose real name is Raphael Graven, but was known online as Jean Pormanove or JP \u2013 had built a following by putting on live internet shows in which he was abused or humiliated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Prosecutors in the city of Nice said he died on Monday in the nearby village of Contes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Nice prosecutors\u2019 office said it had launched an investigation to determine the cause of death and had ordered an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Users online said the video of the 46-year-old man was first screened live on an Australian platform called Kick and widely shared afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Police in Nice have for the past eight months been probing alleged \u201cdeliberate violent act\u201d against \u201cvulnerable people\u201d that have ended up as videos on the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">That investigation, which began in December, sprang from a report by French outlet Mediapart revealing the existence of such videos, watched by thousands of viewers, especially on the Kick platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a statement, a spokesperson for Kick said the company was \u201curgently reviewing the circumstances and engaging with relevant stakeholders to investigate the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the loss of Jeanpormanove and extend our condolences to his family, friends and community,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The platform\u2019s community guidelines were \u201cdesigned to protect creators\u201d and Kick was \u201ccommitted to upholding these standards across our platform\u201d, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sarah El Ha\u00efry, France\u2019s high commissioner for children, said \u201cplatforms have an immense responsibility in regulating online content so that our children are not exposed to violent content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">With Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors in the south of France have said they are investigating the death of a 46-year-old man who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-358509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115059166047497153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}