Requests for arrest with a view to surrender issued by the International Criminal Court shall be sent, in the original and accompanied by all supporting documents, to the competent authorities pursuant to Article 87 of the Statute which, after ensuring that they are formally in order, shall transmit them to the Public Prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal and, at the same time, execute them throughout the territory of the Republic.
In urgent cases, these requests may also be sent directly and by any means to the public prosecutor with territorial jurisdiction. They are then forwarded in the manner provided for in the previous paragraph.