A post-mortem found Raphael Graven, known as 'Jean Pormanove', died from medical or toxicological causes. Photo / Instagram
A post-mortem found Raphael Graven, known as 'Jean Pormanove', died from medical or toxicological causes. Photo / Instagram
A post-mortem on a Frenchman who died during a livestream found that he was not killed by trauma or a third party, a public prosecutor has said.
“The probable causes of death appear to be medical and/or toxicological,” Nice prosecutor Damien Martinelli said, adding that further tests had been ordered.
Raphael Graven, known online as “Jean Pormanove” or “JP”, died on Monday near the French Riviera city during a livestream, with footage showing him lying under a sheet while another man threw a plastic bottle at him.
Two forensic doctors found no “internal or external traumatic injuries” or burns, only a few bruises and healed lesions, the prosecutor said.
“The medical experts consider that Mr Graven’s death was not traumatic in origin and was not related to the intervention of a third party,” said Martinelli.
Graven may have suffered from heart problems and was undergoing medical treatment for his thyroid gland, the prosecutor added.
The 46-year-old had built a following of hundreds of thousands on Australian streaming platform Kick by putting on live shows in which he was abused or humiliated.
Prosecutors said he died on Monday in the village of Contes near Nice.
