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

Article 60-3

…d on one of the lists provided for in article 157 or who has sworn the oath provided for in Article 60 to open the seals in order to make one or more copies of this data or to carry out the technical…

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

Article 63-3

…e officer. If custody is extended, the person may ask to be examined a second time. The doctor will decide whether the detainee is fit to remain in police custody and will make any useful observations…

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

Article 63-8

…brought before that magistrate. If the person is released at the end of police custody without any decision having been taken by the public prosecutor on the public prosecution, the provisions of Art…

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

Article 63-5

Custody in police custody must be carried out in conditions that ensure respect for the dignity of the person. Only strictly necessary security measures may be imposed on the person in police custody.

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

Article 63-4

The lawyer appointed under the conditions provided for in Article 63-3-1 may communicate with the person in police custody under conditions that guarantee the confidentiality of the interview. The dur…

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

Article 64-1

…igation or before the court of trial, if the content of the minutes of the hearing is contested, by decision of the investigating judge or the court of trial, at the request of the public prosecutor o…

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

Article 60-1

…inistration likely to hold information relevant to the investigation, including, subject to Article 60-1-2, those from a computer system or processing of nominative data, to hand over this information…

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

Article 63-7

…urposes of the investigation to carry out a full search of a person in police custody, this must be decided by a judicial police officer and carried out in an enclosed area by a person of the same sex…

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

Article 62-3

…or, without prejudice to the prerogatives of the liberty and custody judge provided for in articles 63-4-2 and 706-88 to 706-88-2 in relation to extending the measure beyond the forty-eighth hour and…

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

Article 78-6

…at the disposal of an officer mentioned in the first paragraph for the time required to inform and decide on the matter. Violation of this obligation is punishable by two months' imprisonment and a f…

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