In order to gather evidence and identify the perpetrators, by establishing links between individuals, events or offences, of crimes and misdemeanours of a serial nature, the national police and gendarmerie services and units responsible for a judicial police mission may implement, under the control of the judicial authorities, automated processing of personal data collected in the course of:
1° Preliminary or flagrante delicto enquiries or investigations carried out under a rogatory commission and concerning any offence punishable by at least five years’ imprisonment;
2° Procedures for investigating the causes of death provided for by Article 74 or the search for the causes of a disappearance provided for by l’article 74-1.
These processing operations may record personal data of the kind referred to in I of Article 6 of Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms, to the extent strictly necessary for the criminal research purposes assigned to the said processing operations.