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The two men, users of the platform Kick, received suspended sentences and fines. Two men in France were convicted on Wednesday of aggravated violence in a case that followed the death of Raphaël Graven, an internet personality. Graven died last year during a live broadcast on the platform Kick, where fellow live streamers routinely subjected him to humiliation and abuse. The men were not accused of causing Mr. Graven’s death, but they controlled the channel whose stream he was present on when he died.
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In a criminal court in Nice, the two men, Owen Cenazandotti and Safine Hamadi, both in their 20s, were also convicted of incitement to hatred and violence online, according to a statement on Thursday from Maud Marty, a public prosecutor.
