A French court has delivered guilty verdicts for aggravated violence to two local content creators linked to the August 2025 death of well-known extreme challenge streamer Raphaël Graven, who built a massive online following under the alias Jean Pormanove. The 46-year-old influencer passed away in Contes, a small village located just north of the southern French city of Nice, and his fatal incident was captured live on the controversial streaming platform Kick.
The two convicted men, Safine Hamadi, 34, and Owen Cenazandotti, 28, have long maintained that all humiliation and physical abuse that appeared in Graven’s content was carried out with his full consent. According to prosecution arguments, prosecutors ultimately dropped manslaughter charges against the pair after forensic evidence pointed to Graven’s pre-existing poor cardiovascular health as the most likely primary cause of death. The court also cleared both defendants of the additional charge of exploiting Graven’s psychological vulnerability, citing prior statements the streamer gave to law enforcement confirming his consent to the risky stunts.
In the final sentencing, Hamadi received an 18-month suspended prison sentence and a €5,000 fine, while Cenazandotti was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence and a €15,000 fine. Hamadi publicly expressed remorse for his role in the events during the trial proceedings. Beyond custodial and financial penalties, the court has imposed a six-month ban on both men publishing any content to the Kick platform.
At the time of Graven’s death, the streamer boasted more than one million combined followers across his social media channels, and had cultivated a dedicated fan base specifically on Kick. Patterned content from Graven’s channel regularly featured other creators subjecting him to physical violence and verbal degradation as part of his signature extreme challenge format. Local media reports from the days after his death confirmed that a live broadcast on August 18 showed Graven motionless on a mattress covered by a duvet; the graphic video was quickly removed from Kick after the platform was notified of his death.
While the criminal proceedings only targeted the two individual creators, the streaming platform Kick itself remains the subject of an ongoing investigation by French law enforcement and regulatory authorities. In a formal statement provided to The New York Times this Thursday, a Kick spokesperson emphasized that the company was not a party in the criminal case against Hamadi and Cenazandotti, and declined to offer further comment on the court’s ruling. “The ruling relates solely to two individual content creators,” the statement added.