The court of Nice, in the south of France, sentenced this Wednesday for acts of violence and incitement to hatred Owen Cenazandotti and Safine Hamadi, the two streamers who participated in the live death video of the influencer Jean Pormanove on the controversial platform Kick in August last year.
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Cenazandotti, 27 years old and known by the alias “Naruto,” and “Safine,” 24, have been sentenced to two years and 18 months in prison, respectively, which they will not have to serve, as it is less than three years and they have no prior record. The sentence is for acts of violence committed against Raphaël Grave, 46 years old, whose alias on social media was Jean Pormanove or “JP.”
Pormanove died on August 12 last year after having spent 12 days locked in a house near Nice, broadcasting live on this platform videos of fights, insults, and abuses committed by the two convicted against him and another individual. Raphaël Grave’s account had 200,000 followers and was present on other platforms such as TikTok, where he was known for recording himself suffering humiliations by the other two influencers.
The court acquitted them of the crimes of abuse of weakness and dissemination of violent images, considering that they were not the broadcasters from a legal point of view. They have been banned from publishing content on digital platforms for a period of six months.
After Pormanove’s death, an investigation was opened, but the autopsy determined that his death was not caused by the abuses committed by the two streamers. However, the court did convict them for the violence exerted on the victim and on another streamer, Stéphane G. (alias Coudouxen), in the video of Pormanove’s death and in others broadcast on Kick between 2023 and 2025.
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The case caused a great shock in France, due to the raw violence of the videos and because it highlighted the serious consequences of the lack of regulation on some digital platforms. Kick was created in 2022 in Australia and aimed to compete with Twitch but with laxer rules, with hardly any filters. The two convicted admitted during the trial, held in July, to having earned up to 6,000 euros a month from this activity, the money paid by internet users in exchange for violent content.
The images showed the convicted insulting, humiliating, and assaulting Pormanove and another man. Only “Naruto” was present on Wednesday during the reading of the verdict. He was also convicted for incitement to discrimination based on sexual orientation and violence against minors. During the trial, held last July, both denied having mistreated those they call “their friends.”
The Nice prosecutor’s office, in charge of the investigation since Pormanove’s death occurred in a town near this city in the south of France, considered that the two accused, in their activity on the mentioned platform, had organized a “system of human mistreatment,” a “convergence of violence and abuse of vulnerability.” It recalled that, in this case, consent by Pormanove and the other victim does not nullify the abuse of vulnerability. The prosecution had requested that they be banned for life from posting content on social networks. Finally, it will be six months.
The two convicted had been questioned months before Pormanove’s death after the media outlet Mediapart revealed irregularities in Kick’s activity. In parallel to this process, last January the Paris Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation against the platform and requested arrest warrants against its executives for failure to assist a person in danger, failure to prevent a crime against physical integrity, and dissemination of recordings that violate a person’s integrity.
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