Lancôme closes Hong Kong stores as angry protesters gather outside their doors

[yuiyoshida]

Fortunately for Nintendo, anger towards their move to standardize the Chinese name of Pikachu has dissipated as the wrath of Hong Kong protesters is now descending fully upon French cosmetics giant Lancôme.

Following the PR fiasco that erupted from Lancôme's hasty decision to cancel its sponsored concert starring Hong Kong pro-democracy singer Denise Ho after receiving online backlash from the mainland, angry protesters were met with closed doors and rope barricades today as the troubled cosmetics company chose to shut down all of its HK locations.

According to SCMP, dozens of protesters crowded around outside of Lancôme's main location in Hong Kong at Lane Crawford in Causeway Bay's Time Square mall, chanting slogans and holding signs before leaving peacefully. In attendance were six pan-democrat leaders, all of whom brought signs reading: "We are all Denise Ho, say no to mainland hegemony."



Lawmaker "Longhair" Leung Kwok Heung, one of the six politicians leading the protest, said that "This matter is not her personal matter, and not the company's matter either -- it is white terror.

Meanwhile, Civic Party lawmaker Claudia Mo Man Ching invoked the French motto of "liberty, equality, fraternity" and juxtaposed those with Lancôme's profit-oriented mindset, which she termed as: "blatant, naked, despicable."

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