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An investigation has been launched in France into the death of a 46-year-old man who livestreamed videos of himself being subjected to abuse and violence. <\/p>\n

Raphael Graven \u2014 who went by Jean Pormanove or JP online \u2014 was known for streaming extreme challenges and had built a following of more than 1 million people across various social media platforms, including the live-streaming service Kick. <\/p>\n

French prosecutors said he died on Monday at a property in the village of Contes, near Nice, according to local media. <\/p>\n

Graven had reportedly been subjected to violence and sleep deprivation for 10 days during his streaming. <\/p>\n

Footage shared on social media showed several men choking and beating Graven. In one video, the men noticed that Graven appeared lifeless while lying on a mattress and quickly cut the broadcast. The videos could not be independently verified by Euronews. <\/p>\n

Clara Chappaz, France’s digital affairs and artificial intelligence (AI) minister, said that “the death of Jean Pormanove and the violence he suffered are an absolute horror”.<\/p>\n

“Jean Pormanove was humiliated and mistreated for months live on the Kick platform. A judicial investigation is underway,” she wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Sarah El Ha\u00efry, France’s high commissioner for children, said his death was “horrifying”.<\/p>\n

“Platforms have an immense responsibility in regulating online content so that our children are not exposed to violent content. I call on parents to be extremely vigilant”, she wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Kick said it was “urgently reviewing” circumstances around the streamer’s death.<\/p>\n

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of Jeanpormanove and extend our condolences to his family, friends and community,” a spokeperson said.<\/p>\n

“Kick’s community guidelines are designed to protect creators, and we remain committed to upholding these standards across our platform.”<\/p>\n

Many social media users drew parallels between Pormanove’s death and the British dystopian anthology show Black Mirror. <\/p>\n

In a recent episode, a man harms himself on a livestreaming platform in return for payment from viewers in order to fund life-saving treatment for his ill wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 20\/08\/2025 – 13:08 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT An investigation has been launched in France into the death of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[10957,2000,299,36,3469],"class_list":{"0":"post-359522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-death","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-influencer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115061344542245938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359522","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=359522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}