France has opened an investigation into a British e-commerce site suspected of selling sex dolls with childlike features, Paris prosecutors told AFP on Friday.<\/p>\n
The probe into the “Little Sex Dolls” site is the fifth French investigation into online sellers of products with alleged links to pornography.<\/p>\n
Sarah El Hairy, France’s high commissioner for children, announced earlier this week to AFP that she had filed a legal complaint against the British site which delivers its products to France.<\/p>\n
The prosecutors’ office said it had asked the national office for the protection of minors and the cyber criminality office to take part in the police investigation.<\/p>\n
“These products are dangerous,” El Hairy said. “They feed pedo-criminal behaviour and endanger the safety of our children.”<\/p>\n
She said the identity of buyers of the sex dolls should be made available to the authorities.<\/p>\n
Last month, the discovery of childlike sex dolls on the Shein platform caused outrage in France and prompted an investigation.<\/p>\n
The platforms Ali Express, Temu and Wish were also being probed for alleged violations of laws against publishing messages of a violent or pornographic nature able to be accessed by minors.<\/p>\n
Around 20 people suspected of online purchases of childlike sex dolls were arrested during a major French police operation this month.<\/p>\n
Shein, founded in China in 2012 but now based in Singapore, has vowed to cooperate with French authorities and said it is banning all sex dolls.<\/p>\n
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