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

Article 130

…the person must be brought before the investigating judge who issued the warrant within four days of notification of the warrant. However, this time limit is extended to six days in the event of a t…

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

Article 135-3

Any arrest warrant or search warrant is entered in the wanted persons file at the request of the investigating judge or public prosecutor. When the person is referred to the trial court by a decision…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 7: Judicial supervision, house arrest and pre-trial detention

Article 137-1-1

The liberty and custody judge may be replaced, in the event of a vacancy, absence or impediment, by a judge of the first grade or outside the hierarchy designated by the president of the judicial cour…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 2: House arrest with electronic surveillance

Article 142-8

The second paragraph of Article 139 and the articles 140 and 141-3 are applicable to house arrest with electronic surveillance. A person who fails to comply with the obligations resulting from house a…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 3: Pre-trial detention

Article 145-2

…ccused person may not be held in custody for more than one year. However, subject to the provisions of article 145-3, the liberty and custody judge may, on expiry of this period, extend the detention…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions

Article 109

…as a witness shall be required to appear, take an oath and give evidence subject to the provisions of Articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the Penal Code.Any journalist, heard as a witness about information…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Interrogations and confrontations

Article 117

Notwithstanding the provisions of article 116, the examining magistrate may conduct immediate questioning and confrontations if the urgency results either from the condition of a witness in danger of…

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

Article 127

…the person sought under a warrant to bring is found more than two hundred kilometres from the seat of the examining magistrate who issued the warrant, and it is not possible to bring him before that…

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

Article 130-1

In the event of failure to comply with the time limits set by the articles 127 and 130, the person shall be released, by order of the investigating judge hearing the case, unless his conduct has been…

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

Article 136

…d custody judge or the public prosecutor. These provisions are extended, subject to the application of more severe penalties, where applicable, to any violation of the measures protecting individual f…

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