Two Frenchmen receive suspended jail sentences after livestreamer's death

Two French ⁠streamers received suspended ​jail terms on Wednesday following the death of a man they had subjected to violence and ​humiliation for several days on his own live video stream, apparently with his consent, a lawyer for one of the accused said. The Nice criminal court found the two men guilty of inflicting violence ​on 46-year-old ‌Raphael Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, and also of incitement ⁠to hatred for the insults they directed at him. They were not accused of killing him as his death, while he and ‌his abusers slept, appeared to have been due to poor health. Watch moreCruelty on demand? Outrage over livestreamed death of French streamer The incident, ⁠aired on the streaming platform Kick, shocked many in France last summer as they discovered how disturbing content aired on fringe parts of the internet can ​be. Officials called for more regulation and stronger moderation, and the audiovisual and ‌digital regulator Arcom and the Paris prosecutor's office opened investigations into the Australia-based Kick. The streamers, Safine Hamadi and Owen Cenazandotti, said the violence and humiliations had been scripted and partly staged, and that Graven ‌had consente...