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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-6

The deputy judicial police officers mentioned in 1° bis, 1° ter, 1° quater and 2° of Article 21 are authorised to record the identity of offenders in order to draw up official reports concerning contr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Checks, verifications and identity records

Article 78-2

The judicial police officers and, on their orders and under their responsibility, the judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in articles 20 and 21-1° may ask any person…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 57-1

…ted on the premises where the search is taking place data relevant to the investigation in progress and stored in the said system or in another computer system, provided that such data is accessible f…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 74-2

…osecutor, carry out the acts provided for in the Articles 56 to 62 for the purpose of searching for and discovering a person who is absconding in the following cases:1° A person who is the subject of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 63

…ce custody. He shall inform him of the reasons justifying, pursuant to Article 62-2, this placement and inform him of the classification of the facts that he has notified to the person pursuant to 2°…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 61-1

…r attempted to commit an offence may not be heard freely on these facts until he has been informed: 1° The presumed description, date and place of the offence that he or she is suspected of having com…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 61-3

…oice or, if he is unable to appoint one, a lawyer appointed ex officio by the President of the Bar: 1° Assist her when she takes part in an operation to reconstruct the offence; 2° Be present at a sus…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 63-1

…police officer or, under the latter's control, by a judicial police agent, in a language he understands, if necessary by means of the form provided for in the thirteenth paragraph: 1° Of his/her plac…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Flagrant crimes and offences

Article 60-1-2

…ting to the terminal equipment used mentioned in 3° of II bis of article L. 34-1 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code or the traffic and location data mentioned in III of the same art…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 77-1-1

…horisation, the judicial police officer or agent or, in the case provided for in 3° of Article 21-3 and under the control of the latter, the investigation assistant, may, by any means, request any per…

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