France will sue the Australian livestreaming platform Kick for alleged negligence after a user died during a livestream. The victim, 46-year-old Raphael Graven (known online as Jean Pormanove or JP), died during a 12-day livestream that featured him enduring abuse or humiliation from other participants. Digital affairs minister Clara Chappaz accused Kick of failing to stop dangerous content and breaching a 2004 online content law. A postmortem found the death was not caused by trauma or another person. Paris prosecutors opened an investigation into whether Kick knowingly broadcast deliberate attacks and whether the platform complies with the EU Digital Services Act. Kick Francais said it would cooperate, review French content, and has banned participating co-streamers pending investigation.
The platform has come under scrutiny in France after a 46-year-old Frenchman died earlier this month during a 12-day livestreaming marathon on his channel, which specialised in him enduring abuse or humiliation dished out by other participants. Kick did not do everything possible to stop the broadcast of dangerous content, said the digital affairs minister, Clara Chappaz, accusing the platform of breaking a 2004 law regulating online content.
A postmortem found that the man, Raphael Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove or JP, was not killed by trauma or by someone else. In a separate announcement on Tuesday, the Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said France had opened an investigation into the platform to examine whether Kick had knowingly broadcast videos of deliberate attacks on personal integrity. Investigators will also look at whether the streaming platform complies with the EU Digital Services Act on content moderation.
Offenders risk up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 1m (864,000). After Graven's death, Kick Francais said it would cooperate with authorities and was reviewing its French content. Our priority is to protect creators and ensure a safer environment on Kick, it wrote on X. All co-streamers who participated in this live broadcast have been banned pending the ongoing investigation.
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