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

Article 78-2-5

…ence provided for in article 431-10 of the Criminal Code, the judicial police officers mentioned in 2° to 4° of the article 16 of this code and, under the responsibility of the latter, the officers me…

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

Article 78-2-2

…e following offences:1° Acts of terrorism mentioned in articles 421-1 to 421-6 of the Criminal Code;2° Offences relating to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 77-2

…in the context of an unrestricted hearing or police custody that took place more than one year ago; 2° If the person's home was searched more than one year ago; 3° If the person's presumption of innoc…

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

Article 78-2-4

…vehicles travelling, stopped or parked on the public highway or in places accessible to the public; 2° Visually inspecting luggage or searching it. II.-For the application of 1° of I of this article,…

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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

…l as in the territory of the communes through which national roads 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11 pass;2° In Mayotte throughout the territory;3° In Saint-Martin, in an area between the coastline and a li…

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

Article 57-1

…the measures applied to protect the data to which access is permitted in the context of the search;2° To provide them with the information enabling access to the data mentioned in 1°.With the excepti…

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

Article 60-2

…ed to in d of 2 of Article 9 of the aforementioned Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 and in 2° of article 80 of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and ci…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Preliminary investigation

Article 77-1

…f the offences mentioned in Article 706-55, or to the comparison between several biological traces ;2° To compare a fingerprint or palm print with the fingerprint or palm print of a person against who…

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

Article 74-2

…or its president or the president of the assize court, while he is being referred to a trial court;2° A person who is the subject of an arrest warrant issued by a trial court or by the sentence enfor…

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