US Edition'Shocking, Not Surprising': Death of French Influencer 'Will Cast Long Shadow over These Platforms'
Raphaël Graven endured months of abuse on the Kick platform, prompting an investigation into illegal content moderation and group violence charges against other streamers.
- On August 18, 2025, Raphaël Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, died during a livestream on the Kick platform in Contes, near Nice, prompting prosecutors in Nice to open an investigation Tuesday.
- Two men known as Safine Hamadi and Owen Cenazandotti subjected Graven to months of mockery, humiliation, and physical abuse, while an initial December 2024 probe charged them with deliberate group violence and public incitement related to disability.
- Nice prosecutor Damien Martinelli said forensic exams by two forensic doctors found no traumatic injuries, probable causes appear medical/toxicological, and an autopsy is scheduled for August 21, 2025.
- Kick announced it had banned the co-streamers involved and was conducting a complete re-evaluation of French content, while the French Human Rights League filed a complaint with ARCOM citing lax moderation.
- Observers note Graven's paid audience and Kick's moderation model, highlighting hundreds of thousands of followers on Kick attracted by staged abuse, while platform moderation and liability under EU rules raise questions due to looser terms than Twitch.
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Two entrepreneurs are at the origin of the Kick streaming platform, created to compete with Twitch, while guaranteeing its users less moderation.
Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani, who have made cryptocurrency their playground since childhood, have made Kick an expanding financial empire.
The live death of the French streamer Jean Pormanove caused a wave of shock, reinvigorating the accusations against his live companions, Naruto and Safine. But the autopsy revealed on 21 August changes the situation, it removes any external intervention and points to medical or toxicological causes.
Jean Pormanove's Kick channel, Raphaël Graven's real name, was suspended before being reactivated. The platform states that this allows "to directly support the efforts of the ongoing investigation".
TÉMOIGNAGE - Behind the leak of the overwhelming videos on the calvary of the streamer Jean Pormanove, is a young French man who says he wanted to "show reality" in the face of the inaction of the platforms.
Kick, the video platform on which a French content creator died live on Monday, after 12 days of violence and humiliation in front of the camera, was born in controversy. The Quebec animator Denis Talbot prefers to stay away from it because he is "not certain that she is very Catholic".
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