the leaders of Shein are summoned on November 18 by the parliamentary information mission

The deputies want to hear from the leaders of the platform in particular on the profits made from the sale of child pornography dolls.

After the scandal of child pornography dolls for sale on Shein, the leaders of the online commerce platform are summoned on November 18 by the parliamentary information mission on controls of products imported into France, indicates Wednesday, November 5 on France Inter Antoine Vermorel-Marques, LR deputy and rapporteur of the parliamentary mission. “We are waiting for their response.”

“It would be very surprising for them to want to establish themselves in France, but not to be able to respond to the French parliamentarians who question them”underlines the deputy for Loire. The deputies also wish to hear either the Minister of the Economy Roland Lescure or the Minister of Commerce Serge Papin. This parliamentary fact-finding mission will submit its report on December 9.

Antoine Vermorel-Marques, deputy for Loire and vice-president of the Republicans, wants to hear from Shein managers on several points, starting with the “the profits they made with these child pornography dolls”. He also wants to know “if they are able to produce the exhaustive list of all the customers who bought these dolls and transmit it without delay to the courts” And “what processes have they put in place to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.” “Today they suspended a category on their platform that they call ‘sexual wellness,’ but in two weeks or three weeks, are they going to reopen that capability?”he asks.

The MP criticizes the bosses of the platform “make money no matter what they sell”. He denounces a “state scandal”car “any business that sells child pornography dolls would be closed instantly by a prefectural decree. And there, because it is an online platform, because it hides behind the notion of ‘marketplace’ by saying ‘I am not responsible for what I sell, but I still make a profit on what I sell’ we are not closing the platform”.

He deplores “a lack of political will” And “asks the government to take strong measures going as far as suspending the platform, as we have done for other platforms, for example Wish, three years ago”. He would also like France to be able “check that the platform’s internal processes ensure that this does not happen again and not simply tell them ‘above all, don’t do it again’”.

Furthermore, Antoine Vermorel-Marques submits a note to the Planning Commission in which he requests in particular that “China no longer benefits from preferential postal rates”. “China is still considered a developing country, so the stamp to send from China to France is cheaper than the stamp from France to China. We are subsidizing with our taxes the capacity to import small Chinese or Asian parcels and that is completely unacceptable”he explains.