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Amazon has withdrawn from its site “sex dolls with the effigy of children”, after a mobilization of associations, declared Monday the Secretary of State in charge of children and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'.

Following the alerts from associations that I thank, I asked @AmazonFrance to end the marketing on their platform of sex dolls with the effigy of children. @Asso_AIVI @LaVoixDelEnfant @AssoEnfantBleu @assopapillons

- Adrien Taquet (@AdrienTaquet) August 17, 2020

The case had already arisen in 2018 on Amazon, but in the United Kingdom

"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 ”.

⚠️⚠️ HELP US report these pedophile sex dolls that look like a young child to the authorities and are available over the counter on the @AmazonFrance website. Details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

- AIVI #incest #JeSuisVictime #Iwas (@Asso_AIVI) August 15, 2020

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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