Prosecutors in the south of France said Tuesday they are investigating the death of a 46-year-old man who died during a livestream showing him being mistreated by two onscreen partners.<\/p>\n
The man \u2014 real name Raphael Graven, but known online as “Jean Pormanove” or “JP” \u2014 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 Monday in the nearby village of Contes.<\/p>\n
Internet users said that the video \u2014 screened live on an Australian platform called Kick but widely shared afterwards \u2014 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
French government minister Clara Chappaz called the streamer’s death an “absolute horror.”<\/p>\n
“Jean Pormanove was humiliated and mistreated for months live on the Kick platform,” Chappaz wrote on X<\/a>, adding that she referred the incident to French media regulators.<\/p>\n “The responsibility of online platforms regarding the dissemination of illicit content is not optional: it is the law,” Chappaz continued. “This type of failure can lead to the worst and has no place in France, Europe, or anywhere else.”<\/p>\n The Nice prosecutors’ 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 “deliberate violent act” against “vulnerable people” that have been ending up as videos on the internet.<\/p>\n That investigation, started in December, sprang from a report by French outlet Mediapart<\/a>\u00a0revealing 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 Graven emerged on social media about five years ago and had about 500,000 followers on other social media platforms like TikTok and Twitch, Le Parisien<\/a>\u00a0reported. He was known for his gaming streams, “but also for extreme challenges with other streamers,” the outlet reported.<\/p>\n Other social media influencers have been targets of deadly violence during livestreams in recent months. <\/p>\n In June, the Venezuelan prosecutor’s office launched an investigation into the livestreamed murder of a popular TikTok user<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n In May, the\u00a0murder of a young influencer<\/a>\u00a0during a livestream in Jalisco, in western Mexico, shocked the country. Prosecutors opened an investigation for “femicide” after the murder of 23-year-old\u00a0Valeria M\u00e1rquez<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecutors in the south of France said Tuesday they are investigating the death of a 46-year-old man who…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4446,156,51,17920,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-161136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-death","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-live-streaming","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115061210826909467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}