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Article 728-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The sentence pronounced abroad is, by the effect of the international convention or agreement, directly and immediately enforceable on national territory for the part that remained to be served in the foreign State.

However, where the penalty imposed is, by its nature or duration, more severe than the penalty provided for by French law for the same acts, the criminal court of the place of detention, seised by the public prosecutor or the convicted person, will substitute the penalty that corresponds most closely to French law or reduce this penalty to the maximum legally applicable. It will accordingly determine, depending on the case, the nature and, within the limit of the part that remained to be served in the foreign State, the length of the sentence to be served.

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Article 728-4

La peine prononcée à l’étranger est, par l’effet de la convention ou de l’accord internationaux, directement et immédiatement exécutoire sur le territoire national pour la partie qui restait à subir dans l’Etat étranger.

Toutefois, lorsque la peine prononcée est, par sa nature ou sa durée, plus rigoureuse que la peine prévue par la loi française pour les mêmes faits, le tribunal correctionnel du lieu de détention, saisi par le procureur de la République ou le condamné, lui substitue la peine qui correspond le plus en droit français ou réduit cette peine au maximum légalement applicable. Il détermine en conséquence, suivant les cas, la nature et, dans la limite de la partie qui restait à subir dans l’Etat étranger, la durée de la peine à exécuter.

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