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Following the riots in France, suspicious information about selling stolen goods appeared on second-hand online platforms. Several ministers demanded that it be immediately removed from the shelves, and called on several platforms to cooperate with government departments in the investigation.
French Digital Minister Anne Le Henoff today called on online second-hand trading platforms to remove information on sales of items stolen during the 17th riots and convened a meeting with representatives of platform operators such as Vinted and eBay.
The worst wave of street violence and protests in France in recent years broke out over the weekend, with thousands of shops damaged and many looted, Agence France-Presse reports. Before this wave of unrest, students had been protesting in the streets for weeks demanding improvements in school buildings and teaching conditions.
French officials said more than 3,000 stores were damaged. Since yesterday, several screenshots of merchandise from online second-hand trading platforms have been circulating on social media, showing people reselling items online that were allegedly stolen during the weekend unrest.
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Lehenanwe convened a meeting with representatives of the six platforms, and officials from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice will also attend the meeting.
He further said that these platforms should work closely with relevant government departments to impose legal sanctions on those who resell stolen goods.
Officials said the invited participants included Vinted,Amazon (Amazon ), platforms such as eBay, Labcoin, Meta and TikTok, as well as representatives of the French Federation of E-commerce and Distance Selling (FEVAD).
In an interview with journalists, Vinted said the platform adopts a “zero tolerance” policy for such incidents and is “actively cooperating” with law enforcement agencies and French authorities.
The second-hand trading platform, headquartered in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, said: “Starting this weekend, our team has taken immediate action to identify and remove product information that may contain stolen goods and strengthen monitoring of suspicious content.” However, Vinted did not disclose the scale of the problem.
eBay said it is currently unable to confirm whether there has been an increase in the number of listings related to this weekend’s thefts.
The online auction platform said it has used “proactive technology tools” to detect the sale of stolen goods.
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Because items stolen during the riots have been resold on some platforms, authorities believe these product information involve the dissemination of stolen goods and require platforms to immediately remove them from shelves to prevent the spread and subsequent detection of illicit transactions.
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Invited platforms include Vinted, Amazon, eBay, Labcoin, Meta and TikTok as well as French e-commerce and distance selling alliance FEVAD, and officials from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice will also attend the meeting.
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Vinted said it has no tolerance for such incidents, and has immediately removed suspicious items from shelves, strengthened monitoring, and is cooperating with law enforcement agencies; eBay said it was still unable to confirm whether the listings in question had increased and that it had used proactive technology tools to detect sales of stolen goods.
