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France probes fashion retailers for concealing ‘crimes against humanity’

However, Fast Retailing, Inditex and SMCP deny the allegations, with Skechers declining to comment

02 August 2021 - 19:38 By Benoit Van Overstraeten, Richard Lough, Jesus Aguado and Rocky Swift

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into four fashion retailers suspected of concealing “crimes against humanity” in China’s Xinjiang region, a judicial source said recently...

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