Book IV: Some special procedures

The national automated genetic fingerprint database, placed under the control of a magistrate, is intended to centralise genetic fingerprints from biological traces as well as the genetic fingerprints of persons convicted of one of the offences mentioned in article 706-55 with a view to facilitating the identification and investigation of the perpetrators of these offences. The genetic fingerprints of persons prosecuted for one of the offences mentioned in article 706-55…

The genetic fingerprints of the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of article 706-54 may be erased on the instruction of the public prosecutor, acting at the request of the person concerned. On pain of inadmissibility, the person may not make his or her request for erasure until after a period set by the decree provided for in the last paragraph of article 706-54. The genetic fingerprints of the persons…

The national automated DNA fingerprint database centralises DNA traces and fingerprints relating to the following offences: 1° Sexual offences referred to in Article 706-47 of this code as well as the offence provided for by article 222-32 of the Criminal Code and the offences provided for in articles 222-26-2,227-22-2 and 227-23-1 of the same code; 2° Crimes against humanity and the crimes and offences of intentional attacks on human life,…

I.-The criminal investigation police officer may, with regard to the persons mentioned in the first, second or third paragraphs of Article 706-54, take a biological sample or have it taken under his or her supervision in order to analyse the identification of their genetic fingerprint. Prior to this operation, he or she may verify or have verified by a judicial police officer under his or her control or by a…

On instruction from the public prosecutor of the place of residence or detention of the person concerned, the DNA fingerprints of persons of French nationality, or of foreign nationality habitually resident on French territory, who have been convicted by a foreign criminal court of an offence of the same nature as those referred to in 1° and 2° of Article 706-55, where these convictions, pursuant to an international convention or…

When the requirements of an investigation or information concerning one of the crimes provided for in article 706-55 require it, the public prosecutor or, after receiving the opinion of this magistrate, the investigating judge, may request the department that manages the file to compare the genetic fingerprint recorded in the file, established on the basis of a biological trace from an unknown person, with the genetic fingerprints of the persons…