Article D1-1-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure
Other than the case provided for in 1° of Article 10-2, the possibility for the victim or perpetrator of an offence to participate in a restorative justice measure falling under Article 10-1 is offered to him or her, where this measure seems feasible : 1° By the public prosecutor or the public prosecutor’s delegate, when an alternative to prosecution or a penal composition is implemented, at any time during the…