A Spanish streamer dies after taking six grams of cocaine

The viral challenges of live substance use have claimed their first victim: it is the first documented death in Spain during a live broadcast. The macabre and significant thing about the matter is that the deceased streamer leaves the Simón Pérez circleof whom he was a kind of “protege”, and whose fall into the pit of indiscriminate consumption is being documented in chilling detail.

Death live. In the early morning of December 31, 2025, Sergio Jiménez Ramos lost his life, streamer 37-year-old Barcelonan who acted under the alias “Sancho” or “Sssanchopanza”. He consumed six grams of cocaine and a bottle of whiskey in less than three hours, while a group of paying spectators watched the scene. When his brother entered the room and found the lifeless body, on the other side of the screen several users remained connected to the private video call.

The Simón Pérez phenomenon. When in 2017, Simón Pérez became a viral phenomenon after starring alongside Silvia Charro in a video promoting fixed rate mortgages while evidently were under the influence of narcotic substancesit was impossible to foresee what their lives would become. Overexposure on networks and, in search of extreme monetization, a business model based on donations in exchange for increasingly dangerous challenges: throwing appliances off the balcony, ingesting one’s own urine and, of course, substance abuse.

The Diplomats. The escalation of content ended up causing his expulsion from platforms such as Kick, Dlive and Pump.fun for drug violations and promotion of illegal casinos. The last step in search of a corner of the internet beyond all control is Los Diplomáticos, a private group accessible through memberships between 40 and 120 euros. In these video calls closed by Google Meet, Pérez performs degrading acts that include collective masturbation or smearing himself with excrement. Sergio Jiménez entered this orbit in October 2025, despite being under psychiatric monitoring, as confirmed by El País through sources close to the deceased.

The tip of the iceberg. What happens in private video calls is just the beginning. An entire clandestine infrastructure has flourished around these closed broadcasts. According to El País, Telegram groups like “AviatorVip IV”with more than three thousand members, function as meeting nodes where viewers not only comment on what they see, but actively organize challenges, sometimes even contacting substance suppliers. The contents of these supposedly private groups are disseminated on YouTube channels dedicated to the phenomenon, which ensures the continuous arrival of new curious people.

The Graven case. The death of Sergio Jiménez is the first in Spain, but not in Europe. Just a few months earlier, in August 2025, French streamer Raphaël Graven, known as Pormanove, He died after enduring twelve consecutive days of humiliation and physical attacks broadcast live. Two men subjected him to a spectacle of continuous degradation while his audience watched without intervening. It also broadcast on Kick, the same platform that would expel Simón Pérez and Silvia Charro after this death.

Both deaths share the same pattern: individuals in a vulnerable situation (economic or psychological, as in the case of Jiménez) who agree to expose themselves to mortal risks in exchange for immediate money. The fundamental difference with controversial television formats lies in immediacy: here there are no producers, medical insurance or prior controls. Just a direct transaction between those who pay to see suffering and those who need the money enough to risk their lives, with the consequent lack of control. And both cases occurred after regulated platforms closed their channels, taking refuge in digital spaces without any type of supervision.

Zero responsibilities. Simón Pérez’s reaction after learning of death illustrates the moral complexity of this matter. In a live video on YouTube, he stated: “I have a clear conscience, it could have happened to me, it happened to him.” He claimed to have warned Jiménez about the dangers, recommending that he leave Telegram… and immediately promote memberships to his own private groups. The Mossos d’Esquadra keep the investigation open and a series of questions literally unprecedented to date must be resolved: was there incitement or necessary cooperation on the part of those who financed and specifically requested the challenge? Where does the responsibility lie?

Private video calls, by their very nature, escape the control of the platforms and although Jiménez’s family is considering taking legal actionthe dispersion of responsibilities makes it very difficult to point to a clear culprit.

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