\n Prosecutors in the south of France are investigating the death of a 46-year-old man who died during a live streaming event showing him being maltreated by two onscreen partners.\n <\/p>\n
The man \u2013 real name Raphael Graven, but known online as \u201cJean Pormanove\u201d or \u201cJP\u201d \u2013 had built a following by putting on live internet shows in which he was abused or humiliated.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors in the city of Nice said he died on Monday in the nearby village of Contes.<\/p>\n
Internet users said that the video \u2013 screened live on an Australian platform called Kick but widely shared afterwards \u2013 showed Graven lying immobile under a bed cover as one of two men in the room with him threw a plastic water bottle in his direction.<\/p>\n
The Nice prosecutors\u2019 office said it had launched an investigation to determine the cause of death, and had ordered an autopsy.<\/p>\n
Police in Nice have already for the past eight months been probing alleged \u201cdeliberate violent acts\u201d against \u201cvulnerable people\u201d that have been ending up as videos on the internet.<\/p>\n
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That investigation, started in December, sprang from a report by French outlet Mediapart revealing the existence of such videos, followed by thousands of viewers, especially on the Kick platform.<\/p>\n
Asked about that investigation, Kick declined to provide any information, citing its policy of confidentiality.<\/p>\n
The platform is seen as having less stringent user terms than those of its rival, the better-known Twitch streaming service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors in the south of France are investigating the death of a 46-year-old man who died during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-358848","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\/115059909312228843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358848","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=358848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}