Title XXV bis: Procedure applicable to serial or unsolved crimes

One or more judicial courts designated by decree shall exercise concurrent jurisdiction with that resulting from the application of Articles 43,52and 382 of this code for the investigation, prosecution, trial and judgment of the crimes provided for in articles 221-1 to 221-5,222-1,222-3 to 222-6,222-23 to 222-26and 224-1 to 224-3 of the Criminal Code and all offences related to these crimes, when at least one of the two following conditions is…

Within this or these judicial court or courts, the public prosecutor and the first president, after consulting the public prosecutor and the president of the judicial court, shall respectively designate one or more public prosecutors and investigating judges with special responsibility for the investigation, prosecution and investigation of offences falling within the scope of Article 706-106-1. Designated public prosecutors and investigating judges, as well as the public prosecutor at the…

The public prosecutor at a judicial court other than that or those mentioned in Article 706-106-1 may, for offences covered by the same article 706-106-1, ex officio, on the proposal of the investigating judge or at the request of the parties, request the investigating judge initially seised to relinquish jurisdiction in favour of the investigating court with jurisdiction pursuant to the said article 706-106-1. If they did not initiate the…

The public prosecutor may order an investigation or refer the matter to the investigating judge for the purpose of tracing the possible criminal career of a person convicted of offences under Article 706-106-1 or for whom there are one or more plausible reasons to suspect that he or she has committed or attempted to commit such acts.

The procedures for applying this Title, in particular the conditions under which specially designated judicial police officers may assist the magistrates designated pursuant to Article 706-106-2, shall be specified by regulation.