Overview
- France’s interior minister has referred the case to the judiciary to seek a formal blocking order for Shein’s site in France.
- Shein says it has temporarily suspended its marketplace in France and launched an internal review overseen by an “integrity panel.”
- Paris has asked the European Commission to open or escalate a DSA investigation, with EU officials saying the case is taken very seriously and noting Ireland’s lead role for any suspension.
- French customs are blocking and opening roughly 200,000 recently arrived parcels at Roissy to gather evidence for administrative, judicial and EU procedures.
- The clampdown follows reports of childlike sex dolls and weapons listed on the platform, coinciding with Shein’s first physical store opening at Paris’s BHV and growing political and commercial pushback.