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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 133-1

…gins and the person has the right to notify a relative under the conditions provided for by article 63-2, to be examined by a doctor under the conditions provided for in Article 63-3 and to be assiste…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 135

In criminal and correctional matters, committal orders may only be issued in execution of the order provided for in Article 145.The officer responsible for executing the committal order will hand over…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 135-1

The person discovered by virtue of a search warrant is placed in police custody by the judicial police officer at the place of discovery, in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 154. The…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 134

…f a warrant for the bringing in, arrest or search of a person may not enter a citizen's home before 6am or after 9pm. The same applies when the officer is responsible for the arrest of a person who is…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 126

…hours without being questioned, is considered to be arbitrarily detained. The Articles 432-4 to 432-6 of the Penal Code are applicable to magistrates or civil servants who ordered or knowingly tolerat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 135-2

…out, within the aforementioned time limits, in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 706-71, unless the person refuses to do so; the person may not, however, refuse recourse to these arra…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 125

The examining magistrate shall immediately question the person who is the subject of a summons to appear. A person arrested under a summons to appear shall be questioned under the same conditions. How…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 128

This magistrate asks the person about his identity, receives his statements, after warning him that he is free not to make any, and asks him whether he consents to being transferred or whether he pref…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 133

…laid down by l'article 145. Failing this, the person shall be released. The provisions of Article 126 shall apply. If the person is arrested more than two hundred kilometres from the seat of the exami…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 6: Mandates and their execution

Article 130

Where a transfer is required under the conditions provided for in articles 128 and 129, the person must be brought before the investigating judge who issued the warrant within four days of notificatio…

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