If, at the end of the investigation, there are sufficient charges against the person of having committed, other than a repeat offence, a crime punishable by fifteen years or twenty years of criminal imprisonment, he or she shall be indicted by the investigating judge, in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 181, before the departmental criminal court, unless there are one or more co-accused who do not meet the conditions set out in this paragraph.
The period of one year provided for in the eighth paragraph of article 181 is then increased to six months and only one extension may be made pursuant to the ninth paragraph of the same article 181.