11 Facts About Norman Thavaud

Norman Thavaud's mother was a history and geography teacher and his father, Jackie Thavaud, was a culture promoter and head of a local cinema school.

Norman Thavaud had a succession of jobs before becoming a video montage specialist.

Norman Thavaud met Hugo Dessioux at college and they formed the "Le Velcrou" comedic group in March 2008.

Thanks to Le Velcrou, Norman Thavaud met Cyprien Iov, another video blogger, who appeared in a few of Le Velcrou's videos.

In July 2009, Norman Thavaud was awarded a degree in cinematography from University Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.

Norman Thavaud's videos have been viewed billions of times, enabling him to be paid by the YouTube internet website and to attract national media attention.

Cyprien, the best known French YouTuber in terms of number of subscribers has invited Norman Thavaud to participate in only one of his videos, even though they performed together as part of Le Velcrou.

Norman Thavaud has appeared on TV, taking part in several episodes of Very Bad Plagues by the Palmashow.

In December 2011, Norman Thavaud was invited to the Les Arcs European Film Festival with other YouTube stars such as La Ferme Jerome, Cyprien, Maxime Musqua, Mistertel, as well as the Palmashow.

On 12 January 2012, Norman Thavaud organized Zapping Amazing, a show at the Grand Rex in which he gathered some web-comedy friends with whom he has performed.

Norman Thavaud told the investigators that he had received "death threats, hordes of insults and cyber harassment" since the media coverage of the case began.