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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 209

…gs shall remain deposited at the registry for forty-eight hours in the case of pre-trial detention, and for five days in all other cases. It shall then proceed in accordance with articles 197,198 and…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 204

The Investigating Chamber may also, in respect of offences arising from the record of the proceedings, order that an indictment be issued, under the conditions laid down in Article 205, persons who ha…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 207

…82-1, second paragraph, 156, second paragraph, or 167, penultimate paragraph, it may either evoke and proceed under the conditions provided for in Articles 201,202,204 and 205, or refer the case bac…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 208

When it has prescribed additional information and this has been completed, the investigating chamber shall order the file of the proceedings to be deposited at the registry. The public prosecutor shal…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 205

Supplementary information shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions relating to preliminary investigations either by one of the members of the Investigating Chamber or by an investigating…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 201

…secutor, order of its own motion the release of the person under investigation. It may order the remand in custody or under judicial supervision of the person under investigation. In urgent cases, the…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 202

It may, of its own motion or at the request of the Public Prosecutor, order that he or she be informed in respect of the persons under investigation or defendants referred to it on all the counts of c…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 203

…al persons together, or when they have been committed by different persons, even at different times and in different places, but as a result of a concert formed in advance between them, or when the gu…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 200

…er, the investigating chamber deliberates without the public prosecutor, the parties, their lawyers and the court clerk being able to be present under any circumstances.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 206

Subject to the provisions of articles 173-1,174 and 175, the Investigating Chamber examines the regularity of the proceedings submitted to it. If it discovers a ground for nullity, it declares the act…

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