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The boys accused of torturing and humiliating a streamer for days until he died have reunited at his funeral.
Raphael Graven, also often called Jean Pormanove or JP, died following a live broadcast at his home in Contes, a village north of Nice, last Monday.
The 46-year-old reportedly endured ’10 days and nights of torture’ including ‘extreme’ physical violence and sleep deprivation beforehand.
People watching his final stream are said to have raised the alarm after seeing him lying motionless on a mattress and never responding to any of their messages.
While he lay on the mattress, a person might be seen throwing a bottle of water at him.
Fellow streamers Owen Cenazendotti, 26, and Safine Hamadi, 23, were seen slapping and kicking Graven within the video.
And so they were among the many 30 who turned as much as the funeral on Wednesday – pictured next to Graven’s mum Joelle.
She has pledged her support to the streamers, saying they ‘took great care of my son’.
She told the Each day Mail: ‘They’re really great people because Jean was capable of achieve this much with them. They’ve values. JP was capable of do things with them he wasn’t capable of do back home.
‘He had a life, he had a superb life, they gave him a superb life, he was single but he enjoyed his life.
‘I’m pleased with them and I need to thank them for it. I’m not afraid to say it.’
French newspaper Le Monde reported Graven was known for collaborating in videos depicting violence and humiliation.
Previous streams saw him slapped, strangled, force-fed, doused in liquids and even targeted with a paintball gun.
Prosecutor Damien Martinelli said health workers #’didn’t consider his death was traumatic in origin’ and ‘not related to the intervention of a 3rd party’.
Government minister Clara Chappaz described the violence Graven suffered before his death as an ‘absolute horror’ and said he had been ‘humiliated’ for months as she announced a judicial investigation is now underway.
Graven had greater than one million social media followers and was particularly popular on Kick, which is seen as having less stringent user terms than those of its rival, the better-known Twitch streaming service.
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