Title XVII: Prosecution, investigation and judgment of offences relating to trafficking in human beings, procuring or the use of prostitution of minors

The offences provided for by articles 225-5 to 225-12-4 of the Criminal Code, as well as the offence of participation in a criminal association provided for by l’article 450-1 du même code lorsqu’il a pour objet de préparer l’une de ces infractions, sont poursuivies, instruites et jugées selon les règles du présent code, sous réserve des dispositions du présent titre.

For the purposes of investigating and establishing the offences referred to in Article 706-34, the visits, searches and seizures provided for in Article 59 may be carried out at any time of the day or night, inside any hotel, furnished house, guesthouse, public house, club, club, dance hall, place of entertainment and their annexes and in any other place open to the public or used by the public where it…

In the event of prosecution for one of the offences referred to in Article 706-34, the investigating judge may provisionally order, for a period of up to three months, the total or partial closure of: 1° An establishment referred to in 1° and 2° of Article 225-10 of the Penal Code, the holder, manager or agent of which is prosecuted ; 2° Of any hotel, furnished house, boarding house, public…

The Public Prosecutor shall notify the owner of the building, the lessor and the owner of the land where an establishment is operated in which the facts referred to in 2° of article 225-10 of the Penal Code and shall have the initiation of proceedings and the decision taken recorded in the commercial register and in the registers in which the securities are recorded. The procedures for applying this article…

When the holder of the public house or restaurant licence or the owner of the business in which one of the establishments referred to in 2° of article 225-10 of the Penal Code is not prosecuted, the additional penalties provided for by Article 225-22 of the Penal Code may only be imposed, by special reasoned decision, if it is established that this person has been summoned at the behest of…

The decision which, pursuant to Article 225-22 of the Penal Code, pronounces the confiscation of the goodwill orders the expulsion of any person who, directly or through an intermediary, holds, manages, operates, directs, operates, finances or contributes to financing the establishment. This same decision entails the transfer to the State of ownership of the confiscated business and entails subrogation of the State in all the rights of the owner of…

In the event of an offence under 3° of article 225-10 of the Penal Code, the occupier and the person engaging in prostitution are jointly and severally liable for any damages that may be awarded for neighbourhood disturbance. Where the acts referred to in this article are practised on a regular basis, the lease may be terminated and the tenant, sub-tenant or occupant who engages in or tolerates prostitution may…

People who are victims of one of the offences provided for in articles 225-4-1 to 225-4-6 and 225-5 to 225-10 of the Criminal Code, who have contributed by their testimony to the ascertainment of the truth and whose life or physical integrity is seriously endangered on national territory, may be subject as necessary to the protection intended to ensure their safety provided for in Article 706-63-1 of this code. The…