asks to suspend the entire website for 3 months after the scandal of child sex dolls

Shein has already deactivated its market, in which external sellers They offer their products to buyers around the world, in France on November 5 after the Government found child sex dolls and weapons for sale, however, the part of the website that offers Shein’s own range of clothing remains accessible.

For this reason, the French Government will ask Justice for a three-month suspension of the Shein website as a whole while increasing pressure on the Chinese company. Strengthen controls over the products you sell.

“We know how powerful Shein is from a technical point of view, and even, I would say, in terms of its use of artificial intelligence for production, so we can assume that it has the technical, technological and financial means to carry out these ‌controls. The fact is that it does not do so,” an official from the French Ministry of Finance told Reuters.

At the moment, Shein has not commented.

This Wednesday, the Paris court plans to hold a hearing on the case that the Government has presented against Infinite Styles Services Co Ltd, the company in Dublin that is behind Shein’s business in Europe, and the company’s lawyers are also expected to attend.

The case of France is based on the article 6.3 of the digital economy lawwhich gives judges powers to prescribe measures aimed at preventing or stopping harm caused by online content.

The court must decide whether a suspension is appropriate and whether it complies with European Union law. Under EU law, online marketplaces, as intermediaries, are not directly responsible for products sold by third parties, but They have the obligation to remove illegal products as soon as they become aware of them.

The court ruling is not expected this Wednesday but in the coming weeks.

This decision of French executive comes three weeks after Shein opened the stores in Paris doors of its first physical store, something that coincided with the explosion in France of the scandal over the sale on this platform of child-like and hyper-realistic sex dolls, with pedo-pornographic sales pitches.

For this reason, the Paris Prosecutor’s Office opened a investigation into Shein for “dissemination of images or representations of minors of a pornographic nature”, which also affects AliExpress, and for the “dissemination of violent, pornographic or degrading messages accessible to minors”, which in addition to these two platforms also includes the Chinese one Ago and the American Wish.

To all this we must add that France has transferred this issue to the EU, pressuring the European Commission to open an investigation into Shein for illicit products..