Asian e-commerce giant Shein on Tuesday pledged to “cooperate fully” with French judicial authorities after an uproar over it selling childlike sex dolls, and said it was prepared to disclose the names of people who bought them.

The controversy comes as the online fast-fashion seller is set to open its first brick-and-mortar store in the world in the prestigious BHV department store in central Paris.

“We will cooperate fully with the judicial authorities,” Shein’s spokesman in France, Quentin Ruffat, told RMC radio, adding the company was prepared to share names of those who have bought such dolls.

“We will be completely transparent with the authorities. If they ask us to do so, we will comply,” he said.

“We will put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure that this does not happen

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