“I will not give up,” reacts MP Sandrine Le Feur after contacting the Paris prosecutor

The Shein group requested last week a further postponement of this hearing before the deputies, pending the decision of the Paris judicial court on its suspension, requested by the State because of the prohibited products it sold.

“I want to go all the way, I won’t give up“, reacted Tuesday, December 2 on France Inter, the Renaissance MP for Finistère Sandrine Le Feur, who chairs the Sustainable Development Commission in the National Assembly, while the representatives of Shein did not appear at the convening of this commission on Tuesday afternoon. The MP announced that she had “seized the public prosecutor“. Even if “the consequences are quite weak, 7,500 euros fine if the court finds in our favor, (…) it is a sanction which is symbolic“, she says.

“I am quite shocked by the pretexts and I hope that the court will prove us right.“, adds Sandrine Le Feur. “A permanent commission to date has never referred the matter to the public prosecutor“, for refusal to appear, “This is a first and I want to go through to the end because Shein’s behavior is not acceptable“, she asserts.

“We were waiting for answers from them, I am continuing the procedure in agreement with the members of the commission“, according to Sandrine Le Feur, who believes that “This is truly a disrespectful attitude towards Parliament. I find that parliamentarians have the right to demand accountability while respecting our institutions“. Shein representatives asked “to shift again“their presence”under the pretext of the ongoing judicial investigation. This investigation is absolutely no excuse to come before the committee today and answer questions from MPs“, estimates the Renaissance MP from Finistère.

“Given our parliamentary schedule, which is quite busy, we could not afford to postpone the hearing request date a fourth time. Since I have been president of this commission, at no time have I had three refusals for hearings of this nature“, explains Sandrine Le Feur.

After the discovery at the end of October of the sale of child-like sex dolls and category A weapons, Shein was summoned for the first time on November 18 before the Assembly’s information mission on controls of products imported into France. It was then the sustainable development commission which took over, summoning Shein twice, on November 26 and then on December 2. Each time, Shein requested a “schedule adjustment” due to the legal proceedings initiated in parallel by the government before the Paris judicial court. The hearing is scheduled for this Friday.