Two French streamers, Owen Cenazandotti and Safine Hamadi, were taken into custody on Tuesday, January 27, prosecutors said, as part of a months-long probe into an on-camera death broadcast via the Kick platform.
The live-streamed death of Raphaël Graven, alias Jean Pormanove, in August, live on the 200,000-follower video channel, which he shared with Cenazandotti and Hamadi, shocked France and drew the ire of government ministers.
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French streamer dies live on air after months of humiliation and abuse
Cenazandotti, 26, and Hamadi, 23, have denied responsibility for 46-year-old Graven's death, which followed a 12-day live marathon of physical and verbal abuse against him. Graven died on August 18, during a livestream in which he and another man were struck and insulted by his younger colleagues, though an autopsy has since ruled out "intervention by a third party" playing a role in his death.
