France has already fined Shein three times in 2025 Piero CRUCIATTI

Asian e-commerce giant Shein said Monday it was banning sex dolls from sale on its sites globally after French authorities condemned it for featuring ones resembling children.

France's finance minister had threatened to ban the retailer from the country if it resumed selling the childlike dolls, just days before it opens its first physical store in Paris.

The Paris prosecutors' office said it had opened investigations against Shein, and also rival online retailer AliExpress, over the sale of sex dolls.

The probes were also for distributing "messages that are violent, pornographic or improper, (and) accessible to minors", the office told AFP.

The investigations were launched after France's anti-fraud unit reported on

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