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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Offences against maritime cultural property

Article 706-111-1

For the investigation, prosecution, inquiry and, in the case of misdemeanours, the judgment of offences relating to damage to maritime cultural property provided for in Section 2 of Chapter IV of Titl…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Remote access to correspondence stored by means of electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier

Article 706-95-1

…ccess, without the knowledge of the person concerned, to correspondence stored by electronic communications accessible by means of a computer identifier. The data to which access has been granted may…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XXV bis: Procedure applicable to serial or unsolved crimes

Article 706-106-4

…ion or refer the matter to the investigating judge for the purpose of tracing the possible criminal career of a person convicted of offences under Article 706-106-1 or for whom there are one or more p…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Police custody

Article 706-88-1

…as the extension provided for in this article is notified. In addition to the possibility of a medical examination carried out at the initiative of the detainee, from the start of each of the two add…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article 706-95-19

The recordings and data collected during the operations carried out pursuant to this section shall be destroyed, at the request of the public prosecutor or the public prosecutor, on expiry of the stat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Jurisdiction and procedure before courts of first instance

Article 712-4-1

…etermine the operating procedures of this commission, in particular its quorum rules as well as the cases and procedures under which it may deliberate by dematerialised means.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Common provisions

Article 712-16-1

Prior to any decision resulting in the temporary or permanent cessation of imprisonment of a person sentenced to a custodial sentence before the expiry date of that sentence, the sentence enforcement…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 709-1-1

…ned for a maximum of twenty-four hours in a police or gendarmerie premises, so that their situation can be checked and they can be heard on the breach of their obligations. As soon as the detention me…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article 709-1-3

…mposed on him, pursuant to his sentence, from entering into contact with certain persons or certain categories of persons, to associate with certain convicted persons or to appear in a specially desig…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Security measures that may be ordered in the event of a declaration of lack of criminal responsibility on grounds of mental disorder or in the event of recognition of impairment of judgement

Article 706-136-1

…rcement judge may order, on the release of this person, if his condition justifies it and after medical advice, an obligation of care for a period that he fixes and which may not exceed five years in…

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