French Streamer Dies During 298-Hour Livestream Following Months of Alleged Abuse
A French streamer dies during a 298-hour live stream session after he had to endure violence and humiliations by fellow re-trollevers for months. The public prosecutor, but the case has many open questions.
Tragic death in extreme challenge
A 46-year-old French influencer died on the Kick platform during a live stream after having endured violence and humiliations by other participants for months. Raphaël Graven, known as his streamer name Jean Pormanove, died on Monday, August 18, during a livestream session that was already over 298 hours. Other participants of the stream noticed that engraves had died while they had put themselves and they dropped the transmission.
The public prosecutor’s office in Nice has now ordered an autopsy and opened an investigation into his death. The exact cause of death is still unknown at this point, the case also has many open questions, including whether and how much the transfer was asked. Like the French daily newspaper Le monde Reported, Graven appeared on his kick channel, which had half a million subscribers, mostly with three other influencers: Owen Cenazandotti (known as Naruto), Safine Hamadi (Safine) and a man named “Coudoux”. The group specialized in extreme content that went far beyond normal streaming activities.
Malent violence in front of running camera
In videos of this group, graves – a wiry former soldier – and “Coudoux”, a person with disabilities under guardianship, were often abused and suffered blows, insults and humiliation by the other two streamers. Cenazandotti and Hamadi regularly hit their two partners hard on their heads, grabbed their throat to choke, and spat on them or poured different substances over them.
Through this content, the streamers collected money from spectators, either through recurring subscriptions or unique donations. Until the end of the long livestream that ended with Graven’s death, the donation collector showed in the video that they had collected over 36,000 euros. In view of this form of monetization of violence, you can of course ask yourself why the quartet was allowed to do this at all and to what extent streaming platforms and their business models tolerate or even promote something like this.
Already ongoing investigations
The activities of these content manufacturers were taken examined in December 2024: an article on the investigative news page Mediapart covered. After the revelations, the public prosecutor of Nice, Damien Martinelli, opened a preliminary examination that is still running. Three charges are examined, including the accusation of “public instigation on electronic communication to hate or violence against a person or group based on their disabilities”.
As part of these procedures, the two influencers who are suspected of having committed violence – Cenazandotti and Hamadi – were taken in police custody on January 8, 2025. “Both the people who are suspected of being involved and those who are suspected of being victims contested the inspection of crimes,” said Nice prosecutor at the time.
Fragile health and doubt
Graven’s fragile health was well known to the spectators of his channel. In a section of the latest “XXL” livestream, which was widespread on Tuesday on social media on Tuesday, it can be seen how Cenazandotti expresses concerns about the breathing problems of his “partner” and the risk of “physical problems”.
In another older video that reappeared after the death of the streamer, Cenazandotti and Hamadi can be heard about how they explicitly discuss the possibility that Graven dies live in front of the camera, and urge him to say “to the camera, now that if he dies live tomorrow, it is because of his crappy health and not because of us”. However, it is currently not clear to how far the videos or the violence carried out in them were real, the streamers point out that the scenes should all have been set.
Political reactions
Clara Chappaz, the French Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, described “the death of Jean Pormanove and the violence he suffered as absolutely horrific”. She referred the matter to France’s media regulatory authority Arcom and submitted a report to Pharos, the public platform for the reporting of illegal online content. The operators Kick platform said: “We are deeply sad about the loss of Jean Pormanove and speak out our condolences to his family, his friends and the community.”
All co-streamers who took part in this live broadcast were blocked until the ongoing examination. Kick is a live streaming platform registered in Australia, which differs from a particularly generous 95/5 percent sales share for creators from competitors such as Twitch. The platform, founded in 2022, is also known for significantly looser moderation. This is now the focus of criticism because it may have favored extreme content.
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