A French Assize Court on Friday sentenced an influencer to 19 years in prison for the live-streamed murder of a man following an online argument.
Son of a French actress, Firmine Richard (“Eight women”, “Romuald and Juliette”, “Les Profs 2”…) with whom he still lived, Keneff Leauva, 40, had stabbed to death in April 2021 Mamadi T., aka “Moussa VR6”.
The victim showed up at dawn at the actress’s home in the Paris region to explain himself following an altercation in front of 500 spectators on the live video application Bigo Live.
The jury retained a sentence less than the 25 years in prison required by the prosecutor, considering that Keneff Leauva had not premeditated his gesture.
With many Internet users called to the bar to testify, the trial this week highlighted how the individual radicalization of a man was part of a collective drift online, to the point of blurring the boundaries of the real and the virtual.
