“JP” was followed by hundreds of thousands of subscribers for his videos showing him suffering violence and other humiliations, in particular of two partners known under the pseudos of “Narutovie” and “Safine”. These videos were broadcast on different sites, including Kick, Australian platform, a great competitor of the world leader in Live Streaming Twitch and with more relaxed moderation rules.
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The investigation was opened for “search for the causes of death” and an orderly autopsy. The investigations were entrusted to the Nice judicial police, already seized since December 2024 of an investigation into these videos, after their highlighting in a Mediapart article.
A video broadcast live Monday on Kick, and widely shared since, shows, according to Internet users, “JP” in moments just before his death or the discovery of it. He is lying inanimate under a duvet in a bed, with two other men, one of whom throws a small bottle of plastic water in his direction.
“Narutovie” also announced on Monday in an Instagram post the death of “JP (…) My brother, my acolyte, my partner”, asking to “do not share the video of his last breath”.
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The investigation opened in January in particular aimed at facts of “voluntary violence in a meeting on vulnerable persons (…) and dissemination of registration of images relating to the commission of violations of voluntary damage to the integrity of the person”. Facts “sometimes encouraged by spectators’ money payments”, said the Nice prosecutor Damien Martinelli.
Two men born in 1998 and 2002, just like “Narutovie” and “Safine” according to documents to register companies with their real identities, had been placed in police custody in early January and the seized shooting equipment. But “both the people likely to be implicated and those of being victims disputed the commission of offenses”, had at the time underlined the prosecution.
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On some videos, still visible on various networks, we can see “JP” being shot without bringing protection with paintball projectiles, being struck by his partners during “gaming” sessions, or systematically finding yourself in the role of a private suffering in private or in public, while seeing to consent to this role.
The minister responsible for digital indicated that she “also contacted the officials of the platform to obtain explanations. The responsibility of online platforms on the dissemination of illicit content is not an option: this is the law,” she said.
“We are deeply saddened by the loss of Jean Pormanove,” a Kick spokesman told AFP. “We urgently examine the circumstances and collaborators with the stakeholders concerned (…). The rules of the Kick community aim to protect the creators, and we are determined to enforce them throughout our platform”.
Created in 2022, Kick offers a much more advantageous remuneration policy than its competitors, transferring 95% of the income generated to content creators, compared to 50% in most other platforms. The “streamers” can thus garner strong sums thanks to their paid subscribers and to donations of Internet users paid during a direct whose content they like.
On the video that would show the last moments of Raphaël Graven, a time counter indicates more than 298 hours and a silver counter the sum of 36,411 euros.