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French police are investigating the death of a popular streamer who died in a live stream for almost 12 days after suffering from apparently abusive and humiliating treatment.
Raphaël Graven (46), known online as Jean Pormanove or JP, was one of France’s biggest streamers on platform kicks, and died on Monday.
The 46-year-old military veteran has often appeared in extreme challenges, building over a million numbers on various platforms streaming themselves by playing video games.
He has been working with several other streamers since 2023, Owen Senazandotti, known primarily as Naruto Online, and both Safin Hamadi, who took part in his final live stream.
Cenazandotti announced his death on Instagram on Monday. In a live stream of video that appears to indicate his death, after he stopped moving, viewers donated money to send a message warning the sleep streamer to the state of Pomanbu.
The lovely prosecutor’s office told CNN that the investigation was opened to his death and an autopsy was ordered. So far, authorities have not released any charges related to Pomanob’s death.
In dozens of videos from past live streams reviewed by CNN, Pormanove appears to be the target of jokes, bullying, physical attacks and stunt degradation.
Their co-live stream video shows Pormanob’s fellow streamers are competing to see how long they can squeeze him.
Thanks to donations from subscribers, the group made money from the live stream. In Pormanove’s final live stream, the counter at the top of the screen suggests that the group has won around 36,000 euros ($42,000) from the stream over a few days.
It appeared to be running for nearly 300 hours during Pormanob’s final live stream, but participants were awakened by the rotation of shared bedroom bikes and leafy leaf bikes. At one point, Pormanob appears to be awakened when a bucket of water is thrown over him.
In an interview with CNN affiliate BFMTV, Senazandotti’s lawyer, Yasin Saduni, said Poman is suffering from cardiovascular problems.
In one video, Pormanove said he had to take the medicine. In the other, Cenazandotti is about to read a message Pormanove sent to his mother.
The game “goes too far,” Senazandotti said his message was read during Palmanob’s final live stream.
“I feel like I’m being held captive by their sh***y concept,” Senazandotti said Poman Veve wrote.
It’s not clear who Pormanove was referring to, and later clips refer to Cenazandotti’s message saying, “I know what I’m like when I’m mad.”
In another clip, his mother begs a pormanob on the phone to shave some of the association’s hair.
“Are you proud of your hair? Did you see what he did to you?” she said, “They treat you like s***.”
Sadouni, a lawyer for Cenazandotti, told BFMTV that Pormanove’s mother had taken part in a gradual stunt with the streamer.
A common theme of his discussion with his conspirators was that Pormanove wanted to marry and have children.
In a 2024 video, Pormanove was asked how he wanted to be remembered when he passed away.
“I have no wife or children. But what a lovely guy!” Pormanove said, “What’s in my mind now, now is to leave a mark.”
Sadouni said Cenazandotti, known for his streamer handle Naruto, had nothing to do with Pormanove’s death, and that all incidents targeting Pormanove have been staged.
“My clients are ready to hear all the useful information,” he told CNN’s affiliate BFMTV on Tuesday. Senazandotti also filed a complaint with authorities that he has been harassed online since Pormanob’s death, according to Saduni.
CNN contacted Pormanove’s mother and Hamadi for comment.
According to CNN affiliate BFMTV, Senazandotti and Hamadi were temporarily detained in January 2025 as part of a police investigation into the humiliation of vulnerable people.
According to the lovely prosecutors, they denied committing a crime and have not been charged with a crime.
“The death of Jean Pormanob and the violence he endured are absolute horror,” Clara Chappaz, Secretary of State for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, said in a post in X on Tuesday.
“Jean Polmanob was humiliated and abused for months on the kick platform,” she added.
Kick, the streaming platform used by Streamers, said in accordance with a statement to CNN on Wednesday that all people involved in the broadcast were banned as “waiting an ongoing investigation.”
