Everton's former sleeve sponsor, live-streamed the final moments of a French influencer who had previously been filmed being subjected to brutal abuse. Kick has the same owners as Stake, the illegal gambling operator which remains Everton's front shirt sponsor.
By Philippe Auclair
No words can express the depravity of what streaming platform and former partner of Everton FC Kick offered to paying subscribers in the morning of Monday 18 August. The video shows the inanimate figure of a 46-year-old man called Raphaël Graven, known as Jean Pormanove to his tens of thousands of followers on the live-streaming platform. Promanove is not asleep, or merely unconscious. He is dead. When he died is not yet known. Was it during the stream? Was the camera switched on afterwards? Only the autopsy immediately ordered by the Nice prosecutor's office after it was made aware of the live stream will tell. Three men are seen by his side on the bed where he lies under a duvet. One of them throws a small plastic bottle at his face. The transmission stops there; but you can still access the stream. According to Le Monde, the video had generated 36,411 euro in twenty-four hours, 5 percent of which was taken as commission by the platform.
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