French streamer dies live online after apparent extreme challenge
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French streamer dies live online during extreme challenge
French police are investigating the death of a popular streamer, who died during a nearly 12-day live stream. Jean Pormanove, 46, known online as JP, is one of the biggest streamers in France on the platform Kick and died on Monday. The Nice prosecutor’s office told CNN that an investigation has been opened into his death and an autopsy ordered. In dozens of videos from past livestreams reviewed by CNN, P Normanove appears to be the target of jokes, bullying, physical attacks and degrading stunts. In his final livestream, a counter at the top of the screen suggested the group had earned some 36,000 euros ($42,000) from the days-long stream. He had been collaborating since 2023 with several other streamers, principally Owen Cenazandotti, known as Naruto online, and Safine Hamadi, both of whom took part in his final Livestream. In the video livestream that appeared to show his death, after he stopped moving, viewers donated money to send messages alerting the sleeping streamers to his condition.
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French police are investigating the death of a popular streamer, who died during a nearly 12-day live stream after apparently suffering abusive and humiliating treatment.
Raphaël Graven, 46, known online as Jean Pormanove or JP, is one of the biggest streamers in France on the platform Kick and died on Monday.
The 46-year-old military veteran had built a following numbering more than a million across different platforms streaming himself playing video games and had often appeared in extreme challenges.
He had been collaborating since 2023 with several other streamers, principally Owen Cenazandotti, known as Naruto online, and Safine Hamadi, both of whom took part in his final livestream.
Cenazandotti announced his death Monday on Instagram. In the video livestream that appeared to show his death, after he stopped moving, viewers donated money to send messages alerting the sleeping streamers to Pormanove’s condition.
The Nice prosecutor’s office told CNN that an investigation has been opened into his death and an autopsy ordered. So far, authorities have not announced any charges related to Pormanove’s death.
In dozens of videos from past livestreams reviewed by CNN, Pormanove appears to be the target of jokes, bullying, physical attacks and degrading stunts.
Videos from their joint livestreams show Pormanove’s fellow streamers competing to see how long they could throttle him, others show him being shot with paintballs or doused with water.
Thanks to donations from subscribers, the group earned money from the livestreams. In Pormanove’s final livestream, a counter at the top of the screen suggested the group had earned some 36,000 euros ($42,000) from the days-long stream.
Leaving a mark
During Pormanove’s final livestream, which appeared to run to nearly 300 hours, participants were woken up by the revving of a motorbike in their shared bedroom, or a leafblower. At one point, Pormanove appears to be woken up when a bucket of water is thrown over him.
In an interview with CNN affiliate BFMTV, Yassin Sadouni, a lawyer for Cenazandotti, said Pormanove suffered from cardiovascular problems.
In one video, Pormanove talked of having to take medication. In another, Cenazandotti purports to read out messages Pormanove sent to his mother in which he complains of being “held prisoner” by his co-streamers.
The game “is going too far,” Cenazandotti said his message read, during Pormanove’s last livestream.
“I feel like I’m being held prisoner by their sh***y concept,” Cenazandotti said Pormanove wrote.
It’s not clear who precisely Pormanove was referring to and in a later clip he tells Cenazandotti, “you know what I’m like when I’m angry” in reference to the messages.
In another clip, his mother berates Pormanove over the phone for letting the co-streamers shave off parts of his hair.
“Are you proud of your hair? Did you see what he did to you?” she said, “They are treating you like s***.”
Sadouni, Cenazandotti’s lawyer, told BFMTV that Pormanove’s mother participated in staged stunts with the streamers.
A common theme in discussions with his co-streamers was Pormanove’s wish to marry and have children, a hope that often drew apparently mockery from the streamers.
In a video from 2024, Pormanove was asked how he hoped to be remembered when he died.
“No wife, no kids. But what a nice guy!” Pormanove said, “Me, what’s on my mind now, it’s to leave a mark.”
‘An absolute horror’
Sadouni said Cenazandotti – known by his streamer handle Naruto – had nothing to do with Pormanove’s death and said that the incidents targeting Pormanove were all staged.
“My client is ready to be heard and to provide all useful information,” he told CNN affiliate BFMTV Tuesday. Cenazandotti has also filed a complaint with authorities that he is being harassed online since Pormanove’s death, according to Sadouni.
CNN has reached out to Pormanove’s mother and Hamadi for comment.
Cenazandotti and Hamadi were briefly detained as part of a police investigation into the humiliation of vulnerable people in January 2025, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
According to the Nice prosecutor, they denied committing any crime and have not been charged with any crime.
“The death of Jean Pormanove and the violence he endured are an absolute horror,” French Secretary of State for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs Clara Chappaz said in a post on X Tuesday.
“Jean Pormanove was humiliated and mistreated for months live on the Kick platform,” she added.
Kick, the streaming platform the streamers used, said that all those involved in the broadcast had been banned “pending the ongoing investigation,” which the site will cooperate with, per a statement to CNN Wednesday.
Robin Severance-Lopez gets GPS monitor taken off while on bail
Robin Severance-Lopez is the estranged wife of suspended Osceola Sheriff Marcos Lopez. She faces charges related to an illegal gambling operation. The ankle monitor was one of the conditions required on July 7 since she bonded out. She told the court she was afraid she’d go back to jail, because she couldn’t afford to pay the GPS monitor, due to having her personal bank account frozen and losing her job after the arrest. She says she lives with her 15-year-old son, in a house that Marcos Lopez pays for.
She faces charges related to an illegal gambling operation.
The ankle monitor was one of the conditions required on July 7 since Robin Severance-Lopez bonded out.
She told the court she was afraid she’d go back to jail, because she couldn’t afford to pay the GPS monitor, due to having her personal bank account frozen and losing her job after the arrest.
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Judge Brian Welke told the court, “Considering all the factors I’m going to grant the defenses motion.” Robin Severance-Lopez got to take her GPS monitor off her ankle. During a court hearing, she said she was getting an infection from the monitor and couldn’t pay the 10-dollars a day ongoing to maintain it.
Michelle Yard, Defense Attorney, asked her in front of the court, “Did the state freeze that personal account?”
Severance-Lopez replied, “Yes.” Yard asked, “Have you been able to regain funds in that account.”
Severance-Lopez said, “No?” Yard asked, “Can you afford?” Severance-Lopez replied, “No, I can’t.”
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Severance-Lopez had already put up 400-hundred-thousand dollars to get out of jail and surrendered her passport as well as firearm. Still the State argued that’s what the agreement was.
The prosecutor stated, “Protect the community from physical harm or show the presence of accused at trial the integrity of the judicial process.”
However, Severance-Lopez’s attorney said, due to the circumstances of the arrest, it’s making it impossible to pay. Yard says, “She’s lost her job. Can’t access her personal acct. Will be out back in jail when she can’t pay.”
She says she lives with her 15 year old son, in a house that Marcos Lopez pays for. He also pays for her car. Other than that she has no money and is not a threat.
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Yard says, “I’m encourage to hear that the judicial process works and the judge is willing to both sides to apply the law.”
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‘Distinctive clothing’ ties man to Ventura fairgrounds burglary, police say
The break-in occurred just after 11:30 p.m. Monday at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. A detective was able to identify distinctive clothing worn by the suspect. A man with similar clothing was spotted walking near Thompson Boulevard and Chestnut Street later that day. Terrell Gregory, 29, was “confirmed to be the person that burglarized the fairgrounds office building,” police said.
The break-in at the fairgrounds, 10 W. Harbor Blvd., occurred just after 11:30 p.m. and was detected by a motion alarm, the Ventura Police Department said in a news release.
Officers responded to the scene and found a window had been smashed with a rock, with the office inside “ransacked.”
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Other offices had also been entered by the culprit, and “it also appeared that the suspect had attempted to gain access to a computer in one of the offices,” police said.
“No items of significance were taken from the building,” police added.
While reviewing security camera footage on Tuesday, a detective “was able to identify distinctive clothing worn by the suspect,” and a man with similar clothing was spotted walking near Thompson Boulevard and Chestnut Street later that day.
That man, Terrell Gregory, was “confirmed to be the person that burglarized the fairgrounds office building,” police said.
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Police said Gregory is 29 years old, though jail records indicate that he’s 31.
He faces charges of felony commercial burglary and misdemeanor resisting a police officer.
He’s being held at the Ventura County Main Jail in lieu of $35,000 bail, and he’s due to appear in Ventura County Superior Court on Thursday.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 805-650-8010.
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A man ripping down anti-Trump signs from a Des Moines overpass sparks charges
Police have filed misdemeanor charges against Bradley Jay Nall, 68, in connection with the incident. A person identifying himself as Nall started a GoFundMe page that references the bridge incident. The page had raised $240 from seven donations as of Aug. 20. A video of the altercation protest organizer Heather Ryan posted on social media has since been viewed more than 500,000 times. “It was terrifying. … It was like nothing I’ve ever experienced,” Ryan said. The Des Moines Police Department said it is continuing its investigation. The incident occurred during rush hour Aug. 12 on the 56th Street overpass above I-235 in Des Moines. The placards carried a single letter spelling “TRUMP = HITLER” and had been fastened to the bridge railing with bungee cords. The group had displayed similar protest signs on Des Moines bridges before and will continue to protest.
Footage of the incident, recorded during rush hour Aug. 12, shows a man crossing from the roadway onto the pedestrian side of the 56th Street overpass above Interstate 235.
In the video, the man can be seen ripping the placards off the bridge, each carrying a single letter spelling “TRUMP = HITLER”, that had been fastened to the bridge railing with bungee cords.
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Police have filed misdemeanor charges against Bradley Jay Nall, 68, in connection with the incident. A person identifying himself as Nall started a GoFundMe page that references the bridge incident and calls for “SUPPORT FOR PATRIOT STANDING UP FOR TRUMP.”
The page had raised $240 from seven donations as of Aug. 20.
A video of the altercation protest organizer Heather Ryan posted on social media has since been viewed more than 500,000 times.
Ryan told the Des Moines Register that before the incident, the demonstration had been calm.
“We only got six people flipping us the bird. That’s pretty darn good,” Ryan said.
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But tensions escalated when the man, later identified as Nall, approached the protesters, she said.
“He was yelling, ‘What are you gonna do? What you gonna do? Who’s gonna stop me, huh? Who’s gonna stop me?’” she said. “It was terrifying. … It was like nothing I’ve ever experienced.”
In the video, protestors and the man identified as Nall can be seen shouting back and forth and exchanging curse words.
Ryan said social media users and a license plate check helped identify the man, and she and another protestor went to authorities to press charges.
In a video she posted Aug. 13, Ryan filmed herself leaving a Des Moines police station holding a case card and saying, “simple assault charges filed.” She added in the video, “I did not know until today that if somebody comes up on you aggressive and ready to punch you out, that’s assault.”
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The Register attempted to contact Nall, but a number associated with him had been deactivated. And messages on the GoFundMe site have gone unanswered.
The post on GoFundMe says: “I didn’t put my hands on anyone, I took the signs down. I am just an ordinary working man who took a stand against people who want to try to slander President Trump’s name and malign him with Adolf Hitler.”
In their news release, Des Moines Police said the two people who came forward to press charges reported that Nall “aggressively approached the group with the intent to tear down the signs” before he “pushed a sign that one victim was holding, striking her in the head.”
The department said it is continuing its investigation.
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“They’re harassing me, my job, and my family as well as completely innocent people who had old phone numbers and addresses of mine because the lunatics were trying to doxx me,” the GoFundMe posting said.
In a video update posted Aug. 14, Ryan said a detective assigned to the case told her the man had requested a meeting with protestors to apologize.
“He wanted a face-to-face interaction to apologize in exchange for us dropping the charges,” she said. “But I’m just not interested.”
Ryan said the group had displayed similar protest signs on Des Moines bridges before and will continue to protest.
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Nick El Hajj is a reporter at the Register. He can be reached at nelhajj@gannett.com. Follow him on X at @nick_el_hajj.
This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Man who allegedly tore down anti-Trump signs charged with assault
Two Macoupin County sheriff’s office employees, Bunker Hill cop charged in bar altercation
Jeffery Schoen, Logan Hemp and Joshua Revisky were all charged with aggravated battery in a public place. A Mt. Olive man was allegedly battered at Skeeters Pub, 1216 S. Hackman St., around 1 a.m. on Aug. 16. Schoen is a former Macoupin County Sheriff’s deputy. Revisky is a correctional officer and Hemp is a dispatcher, both in the sheriff’s office. The three were off duty at the time of the fight.
All three were off duty at the time of the fight.
Officer Jeffery Schoen, Logan Hemp and Joshua Revisky were all charged with aggravated battery in a public place at a first appearance on Aug. 19 in Macoupin County Court in Carlinville.
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The charge is a non-detainable offense under the Pre-Trial Fairness Act, which is part of the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today, or SAFE-T Act.
Revisky is a correctional officer and Hemp is a dispatcher, both in the sheriff’s office.
Schoen is a former Macoupin County Sheriff’s deputy.
Sheriff Shawn Kahl confirmed that Revisky and Hemp had been placed on administrative leave pending a formal investigation into the matter.
Bunker Hill Police Chief Zach Girth didn’t immediately return a message from The State Journal-Register seeking clarification on Schoen’s status.
According to a news release from Staunton Police Chief Jeffrey Doerr, a Mt. Olive man was allegedly battered at Skeeters Pub, 1216 S. Hackman St., around 1 a.m. on Aug. 16.
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Staunton police took statements and launched an investigation after the victim’s sister contacted the office on Aug. 18.
At the Aug. 19 hearing before Circuit Court Associate Judge Joshua Meyer, Macoupin County State’s Attorney Jordan Garrison recused the office from the case and submitted a request for a special prosecutor.
That matter will be taken up at a preliminary hearing for the defendants scheduled for Aug. 27.
Staunton is about an hour south of Springfield.
Contact Steven Spearie: 217-622-1788; sspearie@sj-r.com; X, twitter.com/@StevenSpearie.
This article originally appeared on State Journal-Register: Three law enforcement employees charged after bar fight in Illinois