After Shein, the government brings to justice the online sales platforms AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, Joom, Temu and Wish

Five platforms (AliExpress, Joom, Wish, Temu, and eBay) are accused of having allowed the sale of illegal products. Amazon, Wish, Temu are also accused of leaving pornographic ads accessible to minors.

There are six of them. “We reported to the public prosecutor all the platforms which offered illegal content”ad in The Parisian Serge Papin, the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, who takes stock of the controls carried out by the fraud repression (DGCCRF) since the discovery of dolls with child pornography and category A weapons sold on Shein.

In detail, five platforms have been singled out for putting illegal products on sale. “We discovered that AliExpress and Joom were also selling child pornography dolls”Serge Papin list. The DGCCRF services also spotted “Category A weapons, such as brass knuckles and machetes”sold on Wish, Temu, AliExpress and eBay, says the minister, who also has the portfolios of Commerce, Crafts, Tourism and Purchasing Power. Finally, three online sales sites (Wish, Temu and Amazon) are accused of having infringed “their obligations to filter minors to pornographic images”.

“The files have either already been submitted or are in the process of being submitted”specifies Serge Papin. “Marketplaces, if they want to continue to trade in France, must control their offer”asserts the minister, “otherwise they will run the risk of being suspended.” “We’re in the process of cleaning up. There will be a before and after the Shein affair. I’m not going to give up anything.”