Overview

• An autopsy is being conducted Thursday in Nice to determine the cause of death, with investigators seizing video material and interviewing witnesses.
• A judicial probe opened in December targets deliberate violence against vulnerable persons and related offenses, following earlier reporting on an online abuse economy.
• Two co-streamers were briefly detained in January, and prior interviews recorded Pormanove and a co-streamer insisting the acts were staged to generate attention and money.
• Kick banned the participating co-streamers, pledged full cooperation with authorities, and began a review of its French-language content.
• France’s digital affairs minister sought explanations from Kick and said platforms have a legal duty to remove obvious illegal content.