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Article 706-80 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The judicial police officers and, under their authority, the judicial police agents, after informing the public prosecutor and unless this magistrate objects, may extend to the whole of the national territory the surveillance of persons against whom there are one or more plausible reasons to suspect them of having committed one of the crimes and offences falling within the scope of Articles 706-73,706-73-1or 706-74 or surveillance of the routing or transport of objects, goods or products derived from the commission of these offences or used to commit them.

Information prior to the extension of jurisdiction provided for in the first paragraph must be given, by any means, to the public prosecutor already seised and to the public prosecutor at the judicial court in whose jurisdiction the surveillance operations are likely to begin.

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Article 706-80

Les officiers de police judiciaire et, sous leur autorité, les agents de police judiciaire, après en avoir informé le procureur de la République et sauf opposition de ce magistrat, peuvent étendre à l’ensemble du territoire national la surveillance de personnes contre lesquelles il existe une ou plusieurs raisons plausibles de les soupçonner d’avoir commis l’un des crimes et délits entrant dans le champ d’application des articles 706-73,706-73-1 ou 706-74 ou la surveillance de l’acheminement ou du transport des objets, biens ou produits tirés de la commission de ces infractions ou servant à les commettre.

L’information préalable à l’extension de compétence prévue par le premier alinéa doit être donnée, par tout moyen, au procureur de la République déjà saisi et au procureur de la République près le tribunal judiciaire dans le ressort duquel les opérations de surveillance sont susceptibles de débuter.

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