Influencer Mounim Sabhi remanded in custody over filmed violence against rough sleepers
Content creator Mounim Sabhi has been remanded in custody following the broadcast of videos showing violence against homeless people in his manor.
Influencer arrested after months of violence streamed live on TikTok and Twitch
Influencer Mounim Sabhi was remanded in custody on Wednesday, 23 September, according to an announcement from the Blois public prosecutor's office reported by BFM TV. His partner was placed under judicial supervision. The two will appear before the tribunal on 19 November.
For several months, Sabhi had been accumulating hundreds of thousands of views on the platforms TikTok, Kick and Twitch, where he published, under the account "lateamduchateau", videos depicting violence and humiliation inflicted on homeless people housed in a manor in Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt, in Loir-et-Cher. On Monday, he had been apprehended inside this same manor and placed in police custody.
The public prosecutor of Blois, Stéphane Javet, specified that seizure of the manor had also been ordered, the latter being considered as "the instrument of several of the offences".
The investigation, opened since April 2026, concerns "numerous cases of violence and humiliation" committed against persons housed on the premises, "most of whom presented significant vulnerability and/or precariousness", according to the public prosecutor's office. Six counts have been brought, among which violence against vulnerable persons resulting in incapacity not exceeding eight days, as well as the broadcast of recordings relating to deliberate attacks on physical integrity.
Also among the charges is fraudulent abuse of a person's state of subjection, notably via a digital medium. This count carries a sentence of up to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 750,000 euros.
Sabhi's criminal record is already substantial. Convicted in April for failure to comply and drink-driving, he is moreover to be tried for domestic violence in a separate proceeding, whilst an investigation for rape is ongoing, Stéphane Javet specified to the AFP. In September 2025, he had furthermore been placed under judicial supervision in several cases of organised fraud, undeclared work, misappropriation of company funds and money laundering.
This case is part of a broader context of excesses in online streaming. In early August, streamers Naruto and Safine — who ran the channel on which another content creator, Jean Pormanove, died live last summer — were sentenced to suspended prison sentences for violence and humiliation broadcast during thousands of hours of live streams between 2023 and 2025 on Twitch and then Kick.
Source: BFM TV