France’s finance minister threatened Monday to ban Shein from the country if the Asian e-commerce giant resumes selling “childlike” sex dolls, just days before it opens its first physical store in Paris.

The warning followed France’s anti-fraud unit on Saturday reporting that the company was selling dolls of a likely “child pornography nature”.

On its website, the Le Parisien daily published a photo of one of the dolls sold on the platform, accompanied by an explicitly sexual caption.

It measured around 80 centimetres (30 inches) in height and held a teddy bear.

Shortly after the fraud watchdog’s statement, Shein announced that the dolls had been withdrawn from its platform and that it had launched an internal inquiry.

Finance Minister Roland Lescure warned Monday he would move to ban

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