Death of Jean Pormanove: "Everything was consensual" assures Safine Hamadi, one of the videographers accused of violence

"I wasn't the one who killed [Jean Pormanove]. None of us killed him." In an interview broadcast on RTL on Monday, August 1, Safine Hamadi, one of the former hosts of the Kick channel, on which the streamer died live in mid-August, denied any acts of mistreatment against his former partner.

In the live videos, Jean Pormanove , whose real name was Raphaël Graven, aged 46 at the time of his death, was regularly subjected to harassment, sometimes very violent blows, insults and other humiliations . "I didn't mistreat him at all," said Safine Hamadi, 23, who hosted the channel with Owen Cenazandotti, alias Naruto. "Everything was consensual," he insisted, specifying that Jean Pormanove was "free."

According to Safine Hamadi, Jean Pormanove's reactions, which sometimes protested vigorously, were staged: "What we wanted was for it to be spectacular and the reactions were actually pushed, so that people would replay the videos, so that they would talk about us, to create more buzz." The streamer also stated that he, like Jean Pormanove, received €6,000 per month for his role as an "actor" in the videos and that the channel was managed by Owen Cenazandotti.

After the Nice prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the streamer's death, an autopsy ruled out "third-party involvement" in his death. His death "did not have a traumatic origin," the autopsy concluded . " The probable causes of death therefore appear to be of medical and /or toxicological origin. " However, it appears that the two men inflicted violence and humiliation on him while knowing that his health was deteriorating .

Jean Pormanove's mother, interviewed on the TF1 program Sept à huit on Sunday, said she received a message from her son telling her he felt "captive with their shitty concept." "I called him, he said, 'It's okay, don't worry.' He reassured me. He didn't feel in danger," she said.

An initial investigation opened at the end of 2024, following the Mediapart revelation , led to the placement in police custody of Owen Cenazandotti and Safine Hamadi, who were subsequently released without prosecution. Both Jean Pormanove and one of the other protagonists of the videos, nicknamed Coudoux, had, according to the prosecution, "firmly" denied being victims of violence, citing "staged events intended to create a buzz" and earn money, thanks to donations from Internet users paid to the platform during live "challenges" .