Two French streamers have received suspended prison sentences and a six-month “digital ban” for online violence and humiliation that preceded the death of fellow streamer Jean Pormanove.
On 5 August the criminal court in Nice sentenced Owen Cenazandotti, known online as Naruto, 27, to two years in prison suspended and a €15,000 fine. Safine Hamadi, known as Safine, 24, received 18 months suspended and a €5,000 fine.
Both were also ordered to refrain from streaming platforms for six months, an unusual judicial “bannissement numérique.”
They were convicted of violence and online humiliation carried out during livestreams, but were not charged in connection with Pormanove’s death itself.
Raphaël Graven, 46, who streamed under the name Jean Pormanove, died on August 18, 2025 during a marathon livestream lasting more than 12 days on the Kick platform near Nice.
An autopsy concluded the death was not caused by trauma or third-party intervention and appeared medical or toxicological in origin; Graven had known cardiac issues and was receiving treatment for a thyroid condition.
Prosecutors nevertheless described a long-running “system of human mistreatment” in which the two co-streamers subjected Pormanove — and another vulnerable participant under guardianship — to repeated physical and psychological abuse across thousands of hours of broadcasts between 2023 and 2025.
Viewers sometimes paid to encourage the humiliations, which were livestreamed first on Twitch and later on Kick.
People even paid form Pormanove being beaten up, with some viewers having the privilege of instructing some of the violence aimed at him.
Moments before the stream was cut, a person was seen throwing a bottle of water at the 46-years-old’s lifeless body, apparently believing he was merely asleep. By then, though, Graven had already been dead for almost an hour.
The streamers allegedly earned €13,000 in a month on their streams from showing them.
The case, which had already prompted an investigation before Graven’s death, has intensified debate in France over the regulation of livestreaming platforms, the commercialisation of extreme content, and the duty of platforms to intervene.
Kick banned the two men pending the inquiry, and French digital authorities examined possible sanctions against the service.
Content moderation at the platform is lenient, where creators have shown a tendency to be more edgy and produce controversial videos as they receive 95 per cent of the revenue.
The suspended sentences and temporary digital ban fall short of the lifetime platform exclusion sought by prosecutors, but mark one of the first judicial uses of such an online restriction in a French criminal case.
France’s former prime minister and current head of Emmanuel Macron’s party, Gabriel Attal, has announced plans to curb “screen addiction” among young people, following the death on screen of streamer Jean Pormanove. https://t.co/OVJbMYYJEx
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