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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article 142

…investigation is ordered to provide security or sureties, such security or sureties shall guarantee:1° The representation of the person under investigation, the accused or the defendant in all the act…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 144

…ed in the case of placement under judicial supervision or house arrest with electronic surveillance:1° To preserve evidence or material clues that are necessary to establish the truth;2° To prevent pr…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article 141-4

…suspecting that he or she has failed to comply with the obligations incumbent upon him or her under 1°, 2°, 3°, 8°, 9°, 14°, 17° and 17° bis of article 138. The person may then, on the decision of a j…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article 138-3

…may, at the request or with the express consent of the victim, which may be obtained by any means: 1° Prohibit the person placed under judicial supervision from approaching the victim at less than a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: House arrest with electronic surveillance

Article 142-6

…e during the investigation. In criminal matters, this referral is mandatory in the following cases: 1° If it is requested by a detainee or his lawyer one month before the date on which detention may b…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 143-1

…Article 137, pre-trial detention may only be ordered or extended in one of the cases listed below: 1° The person under investigation is facing a criminal sentence; 2° The person under investigation i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: Judicial supervision

Article 138

…vestigating judge or the liberty and custody judge, to one or more of the obligations listed below: 1° Not to leave the territorial limits determined by the investigating judge or the liberty and cust…

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

Article 78-3-1

…under the officer's supervision, by a judicial police officer, in a language he or she understands:1° Of the legal basis for their placement in detention;2° Of the maximum duration of the measure;3°…

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

Article 78-2-1

…of the judicial police and deputy officers of the judicial police mentioned in articles 20 and 21 (1°) are empowered to enter premises for professional use, as well as their annexes and outbuildings,…

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

Article 78-2-5

…s code and, under the responsibility of the latter, the officers mentioned in the article 20 and in 1°, 1° bis and 1° ter of the article 21 may, on the written requisition of the public prosecutor, pr…

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