Book IV: Some special procedures

For the prosecution, investigation and trial of offences falling within the scope of Article 706-167, the anti-terrorist public prosecutor, the investigating judge, the criminal court and the Paris assize court exercise concurrent jurisdiction with that resulting from the application of Articles 43,52,382 and 702. As regards minors, the anti-terrorist public prosecutor, the investigating judge, the juvenile judge, the juvenile court and the Paris juvenile assize court exercise concurrent jurisdiction with…

The public prosecutor at a judicial court other than that of Paris may, for offences falling within the scope of Article 706-167, request the investigating judge to relinquish jurisdiction in favour of the Paris investigating court. The parties shall be notified in advance and invited to make their observations by the investigating judge; the order shall be made eight days at the earliest and one month at the latest from…

Where it appears to the Paris examining magistrate that the acts referred to him do not constitute one of the offences falling within the scope of Article 706-167 and do not fall within its jurisdiction in any other respect, this magistrate shall declare himself incompetent either at the request of the Anti-Terrorism Public Prosecutor or, after receiving the latter’s opinion, of his own motion or at the request of the…