{"id":14475,"date":"2025-08-20T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/man-who-was-humiliated-and-mistreated-for-months-dies-during-livestream-in-france-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:15:53","slug":"man-who-was-humiliated-and-mistreated-for-months-dies-during-livestream-in-france-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/man-who-was-humiliated-and-mistreated-for-months-dies-during-livestream-in-france-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who was “humiliated and mistreated for months” dies during livestream in France, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In May, the\u00a0murder of a young influencer<\/a><\/span>\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><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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