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Can France ban the Wish online sales site on its territory?

2021-11-24T18:47:03.091Z


VERIFICATION - "Either Wish complies with consumer protection rules, or we will go further," threatened the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire. Can he?


THE QUESTION.

As Christmas approaches, Bercy bangs his fist on the table against the Wish e-commerce platform.

For several months, various investigations by the General Directorate for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) have highlighted the dangerousness of many products distributed on the site.

Faced with the platform's inaction, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire announced the dereferencing of Wish by search engines and application stores.

The site will no longer appear in the catalog of the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Google Chrome or Microsoft Bing.

Read also Wish's low-cost e-commerce on the way to the stock market

The minister warned the marketplace: if Wish does not comply with French standards, a stronger sanction is lying in wait for it.

"

Either Wish complies with the rules of consumer protection, or we will go further and we will go from delisting to banning the site on French territory,

" Bruno Le Maire said at the microphone of

FranceInfo

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Source: lefigaro

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