Overview
- The tribunal correctionnel de Nice on Wednesday found Owen “Naruto” Cenazandotti and Safine Hamadi guilty of violence and humiliation and gave Naruto two years’ prison with suspension and a €15,000 fine and Safine 18 months’ prison with suspension and a €5,000 fine plus a six‑month ban from publishing online.
- Prosecutors said the pair ran a “system of maltreatment” during thousands of hours of live streams from 2023 to 2025 that showed slaps, kicks, blows with implements, eggs, buckets of water and sustained insults directed at Raphaël Graven (Jean Pormanove) and Stéphane G. (Coudoux).
- The parquet had sought much tougher sanctions including longer prison terms and a lifetime digital ban, and the court’s shorter, suspended sentences and six‑month ban may be appealed or spur further legal action.
- A separate judicial inquiry in Paris is continuing to examine Kick’s moderation and whether the platform financially rewarded the channel, while authorities and child‑protection officials are pressing for stronger platform rules.
- The case highlighted how large nightly audiences — reported around 20,000 viewers — and monthly income for hosts created incentives that critics say normalized abuse and exposed vulnerable people, including a man under curatorship, to prolonged public humiliation.