Overview

• Bun Hay Mean was found dead July 10 in Paris’s 17th arrondissement after falling eight stories from a building.
• The Parquet de Paris has launched a judicial inquiry to establish the circumstances of his death.
• According to his agency, he may have slipped retrieving his phone from a balcony gutter, though officials have not ruled out other possibilities.
• The 43-year-old comedian had recently been hospitalized in La Réunion for health issues that inspired his mental-health-themed show “Kill Bun.”
• He was scheduled to perform “Kill Bun” in Montréal the evening following his death.