‘He’s going to die on camera’, one viewer typed. Another wrote: ‘keep up the violence’.

Last Sunday night around 10,000 people watched as 46-year-old Raphaël Graven slumped forward on camera, unresponsive. As he died the chat spiralled into a frenzy, as the moment was streamed from a quiet village north of Nice in the French Alpes-Maritimes. Nobody called for help. Nobody stopped the broadcast. By the time the authorities arrived in the once quiet village, Graven was dead.

Pormanove’s death risks becoming a convenient pretext to tighten control over domestic media while leaving global platforms untouched

Raphaël Graven, better known by his online alias Jean Pormanove or ‘JP’, was a former French soldier who had reinvented himself as a controversial ‘trash streamer’. For months, he built

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