Book IV: Some special procedures

The offences mentioned in articles 323-1 to 323-4-1 and 411-9 of the Criminal Code, when committed on an automated information processing system, shall be prosecuted, investigated and judged according to the rules of this Code subject to this Title. Articles 706-80 to 706-87, 706-95 to 706-103 and 706-105 of this code are applicable to the investigation, prosecution, trial and judgment of the offences provided for in article 323-4-1 du code…

For the prosecution, investigation and trial of offences falling within the scope of article 706-72, the public prosecutor, the investigating division, the criminal court and the Paris assize court have concurrent jurisdiction with that resulting from the application of articles 43, 52 and 382. As regards minors, the public prosecutor, the investigating division, the juvenile judge, the juvenile court and the Paris juvenile assize court exercise concurrent jurisdiction with that…

The public prosecutor at a judicial court other than that of Paris may, for offences falling within the scope of Article 706-72, request the investigating judge to relinquish jurisdiction in favour of the Paris investigating court. The parties are notified in advance and invited to make their observations by the examining magistrate; the order is made eight days, at the earliest, and one month, at the latest, from this notification….

Where it appears to the examining magistrate of the Paris Judicial Court that the acts referred to him do not constitute one of the offences falling within the scope of Article 706-72 and do not fall within its jurisdiction on any other grounds, this judge shall declare that he has no jurisdiction either at the request of the Public Prosecutor or, after receiving the latter’s opinion, of his own motion…

When the Criminal Court or the Paris Juvenile Court declares that it does not have jurisdiction on the grounds set out in Article 706-72-3, it shall refer the Public Prosecutor’s Office to take action as it sees fit; it may, after hearing the Public Prosecutor’s Office, issue, by the same decision, a committal or arrest warrant for the accused.

In the cases provided for in articles 706-72-2 to 706-72-4, the committal or arrest warrant shall remain enforceable; the prosecution or investigative acts and formalities carried out before the decision to relinquish jurisdiction or lack of jurisdiction became final do not have to be renewed.

Any order made on the basis of articles 706-72-2 or 706-72-3 by which an examining magistrate decides to relinquish jurisdiction or by which the examining magistrate of the Paris Judicial Court decides to decline jurisdiction may, to the exclusion of all other means of appeal, be referred within five days of its notification, at the request of the public prosecutor or one of the parties, to the Criminal Division of…