Following alerts from several French associations, the government asked the platform to remove items sold on the internet.
“Ban child crime from our society is everyone’s responsibility,” Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Children and Families, said on Twitter (archives).
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Amazon has withdrawn from its site “sex dolls with the effigy of children”, after a mobilization of associations, declared Monday the secretary of state in charge of children and families Adrien Taquet on Twitter.
“Following the alerts from associations that I thank, I asked (Amazon France) to end the marketing on their platform of sex dolls with the effigy of children”, detailed Adrien Taquet on Twitter, “what ‘Amazon France immediately did so by committing to remain vigilant’.
“Banning child crime from our society is everyone’s responsibility,” said Adrien Taquet, who is due to set up in the fall an “independent commission on sexual violence against children”, as he had announced at the start. August.
The International Association of Victims of Incest had alerted on Saturday on its Twitter account about these “pedophile sex dolls that have the appearance of a young child”, objects “illegal because article 227-23 of the Code Criminal prohibits the representation of a minor when this representation is pornographic ”.
The association, which praised Adrien Taquet’s “rapid intervention”, further recalls that the case had already arisen in 2018 on Amazon, in the United Kingdom this time.
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