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Prosecutors successful the southbound of France said Tuesday they are investigating the decease of a 46-year-old antheral who died during a livestream showing him being mistreated by 2 onscreen partners.
The antheral -- existent sanction Raphael Graven, but known online arsenic "Jean Pormanove" oregon "JP" -- had built a pursuing by putting connected unrecorded net shows successful which helium was abused oregon humiliated.
Prosecutors successful the metropolis of Nice said helium died Monday successful the adjacent colony of Contes.
Internet users said that the video -- screened unrecorded connected an Australian level called Kick but wide shared afterwards -- showed Graven lying immobile nether a furniture screen arsenic 1 of 2 men successful the country with him threw a integrative h2o vessel successful his direction.
French authorities curate Clara Chappaz said connected societal media that the streamer's decease was an "absolute horror."
"Jean Pormanove was humiliated and mistreated for months unrecorded connected the Kick platform," Chappaz wrote connected X, adding that she referred the incidental to French media regulators.
"The work of online platforms regarding the dissemination of illicit contented is not optional: it is the law," Chappaz continued. "This benignant of nonaccomplishment tin pb to the worst and has nary spot successful France, Europe, oregon anyplace else."
The Nice prosecutors' bureau said it had launched an probe to find the origin of death, and had ordered an autopsy.
Police successful Nice person already for the past 8 months been probing alleged "deliberate convulsive act" against "vulnerable people" that person been ending up arsenic videos connected the internet.
That investigation, started successful December, sprang from a study by French outlet Mediapart revealing the beingness of specified videos, followed by thousands of viewers, particularly connected the Kick platform.
Asked astir that investigation, Kick declined to supply immoderate information, citing its argumentation of confidentiality.
The level is seen arsenic having little stringent idiosyncratic presumption than those of its rival, the better-known Twitch streaming service.
Graven emerged connected societal media astir 5 years agone and had astir 500,000 followers connected different societal media platforms similar TikTok and Twitch, Le Parisien reported. He was known for his gaming streams, "but besides for utmost challenges with different streamers," the outlet reported.
Other societal media influencers person been targets of deadly unit during livestreams successful caller months.
In June, the Venezuelan prosecutor's bureau launched an probe into the livestreamed execution of a popular TikTok user.
In May, the murder of a young influencer during a livestream successful Jalisco, successful occidental Mexico, shocked the country. Prosecutors opened an probe for "femicide" aft the execution of 23-year-old Valeria Márquez.
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