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Speaker 1: Catherine, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm fine? Thank you? Make now this.

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Speaker 1: Sixth dole of the Sheen thing, sheenshine, how is it?

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Speaker 1: Do you know that the sixth dole thing only appears

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Speaker 1: to be a thing in France? How did that happen?

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Speaker 2: Who knows? Mike, who knows? But it really could not

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Speaker 2: have come at a worse time for Sheen. This sort

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Speaker 2: of huge e commerce online retailer was due on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: What is due on Wednesday to open its first physical store.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be in central Paris, the heart of Paris,

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Speaker 2: right opposite Paristown Hall. So it was already you know,

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Speaker 2: giving a lot of publicity here because there's been a

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Speaker 2: lot of questions about it, the way it operates, not

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Speaker 2: just the working conditions, but also the environmental impact of

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Speaker 2: this fast fashion that it creates. So yeah, over the

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Speaker 2: weekend it emerged that in France this Shine was selling

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Speaker 2: childlike sex dolls. Now we've seen pictures of them. It's

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Speaker 2: a dole around the size of a one year old girl.

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Speaker 2: This girl is clutching a teddy bear and there was

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Speaker 2: also some sexually explicit captions to this advertisement. Now consumer

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Speaker 2: watchdog went crazy. You said, it's against the law. You

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Speaker 2: cannot sell child porn pornography, you can't sell sex dolls

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Speaker 2: online in France. And now we've got the finance minister

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Speaker 2: who has said that if this happens again then the

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Speaker 2: company will be banned from France. I mean, it seems big, Mike.

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing. France has already find this company

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Speaker 2: three times in twenty twenty five. It's been a total

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Speaker 2: of three hundred and eighty million New Zealand dollars in fines,

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Speaker 2: failing to comply with online cookie legislation, false advertising and

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Speaker 2: misleading information, and not declaring presence of plastic microbes and

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Speaker 2: Sevic's products. So already was looking bad. Wasn't going to

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Speaker 2: be an easy opening. The other point, Mike is I

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Speaker 2: don't know if you have ever been in Paris around

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Speaker 2: Christmas time. One of the big things about Christmas and

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Speaker 2: the stores at Central Paris are their Christmas window displays. Well,

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Speaker 2: Disney was meant to do the window display for the

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Speaker 2: shop where she was going to be having or is

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Speaker 2: supposed to have its store opened this Wednesday. Disney pulled

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Speaker 2: out and said it would have nothing to do with

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Speaker 2: this company. So what looked as though was going to

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Speaker 2: be a sort of easy entrance into the retail side

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Speaker 2: for this company. Now looks as though it's actually going

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Speaker 2: to have a few difficult weeks ahead of it.

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Speaker 1: Right the loave the petty criminal thing fascinates me because

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Speaker 1: that is quite something to ride your truck up to

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Speaker 1: the window and do what they did. I mean, just

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Speaker 1: reeks of organized crime and yet apparently.

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Speaker 2: Not so it did reagive it. But what, of course,

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Speaker 2: the Paris prosecutors say that changes it from your organized

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Speaker 2: crime to a group of petty criminals is what they

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Speaker 2: left behind the clues. Apparently they left behind a lot

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Speaker 2: of DNA. When they opened up those cabinets inside the loop,

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Speaker 2: a lot of DNA was left behind there. They left

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Speaker 2: behind tools. They don't forget, Mike. They dropped that famous crown,

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Speaker 2: Empress Eugenie's crown. They dropped that DNA all over that.

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Speaker 2: They dropped a scooter helmet that had DNA on that

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Speaker 2: as well. All sorts of DNA were left behind. And

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Speaker 2: it's only because, according to the prosecutor, so many of

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Speaker 2: the actual people who carried out this raid they had

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Speaker 2: criminal records, so parents police had their DNA on part,

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Speaker 2: which is why they're able to go and get them.

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Speaker 2: So what they're saying is your organized crime group would

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Speaker 2: not have made these simple mistakes that these guys made.

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Speaker 1: What's the bigger deal. They've got them, they'll stickham and court,

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Speaker 1: presumably they'll get stuck in jail or actually finding what

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Speaker 1: they nicked.

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Speaker 2: Well, they'll be in jail for a while because this

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Speaker 2: will take a long and having to get to court.

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Speaker 2: But they really do want to get the jewels back

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Speaker 2: and Crown jewels back. The thing is, Mike, you know,

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Speaker 2: so many French people didn't even realize they had these

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Speaker 2: Crown jewels and so now everyone wants to see them again.

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Speaker 2: But you know, think back to that Kim Kardashian robbery

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Speaker 2: during Paris Fashion Week. They never found those jewels.

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Speaker 1: No, they didn't. All right, Catherine, catch up, So appreciate

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Speaker 1: it very much, Catherine Field and France. For more from

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