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Article 883-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In criminal matters, when the liberty and custody judge receives a request for release from custody from the investigating judge and does not intend to accept this request, he or she shall rule on it after an adversarial hearing organised in accordance with the provisions of the sixth paragraph of Article 145, the lawyer having been summoned in accordance with the provisions of article 114, if the person under investigation has been detained for more than six months, unless such a debate was previously organised to rule on a previous application for release.

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Article 883-2

En matière criminelle, lorsque le juge des libertés et de la détention est saisi par le juge d’instruction d’une demande de mise en liberté et qu’il n’envisage pas d’accepter cette demande, il statue sur celle-ci à l’issue d’un débat contradictoire organisé conformément aux dispositions du sixième alinéa de l’article 145, l’avocat ayant été convoqué selon les dispositions de l’article 114, si la personne mise en examen est détenue depuis plus de six mois, sauf si un tel débat a été auparavant organisé pour statuer sur une précédente demande de mise en liberté.

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