Section 1: Jurisdiction and referral to the criminal court

In all the cases provided for in this paragraph 3, the court may, at the request of the parties or of its own motion, assign by judgment one of its members or one of the investigating judges of the court appointed under the conditions of the first paragraph of Article 83, to proceed with additional information; the provisions of Article 463 shall apply. The court may, under the same conditions,…

If it appears that the person brought before it is a minor, the court refers the case to the public prosecutor. In the case of a minor of at least thirteen years of age, the court shall first rule, after hearing the public prosecutor’s submissions and the observations of the minor and his or her lawyer, on whether the minor should be remanded in custody or kept in custody until…

In all cases provided for in this paragraph, the court may, in accordance with the provisions of Article 141-1, place or maintain the accused under judicial supervision. This decision is provisionally enforceable. If the accused person placed under judicial supervision evades the obligations imposed on him, the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 141-2 shall apply. In the cases provided for by articles 395 et seq, the court may…

When deferring the sentence for the purposes of personality investigations pursuant to Article 132-70-1 of the Criminal Code, the court may also place or maintain the convicted person under judicial supervision pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 397-3 of this code, under house arrest with electronic surveillance pursuant to the first paragraph of article 142-12, or, in the cases provided for in articles 395 to 397-7, in pre-trial detention…

If the accused is sentenced to unsuspended imprisonment, the court hearing the case pursuant to articles 395 et seq. may, regardless of the length of the sentence, order, on the basis of the elements of the case, that the person be placed or kept in detention by a specially reasoned decision. The provisions of articles 148-2 and 471, second paragraph, are applicable. The court shall rule within four months of…

In all cases provided for in this paragraph and notwithstanding the provisions of articles 550 et seq, witnesses may be summoned without delay and by any means. When they are summoned orally by a judicial police officer or a law enforcement officer, they are required to appear under the penalties set out in articles 438 to 441.

The provisions of articles 393 to 397-5 shall not apply to minors, or in respect of press offences, political offences or offences for which the procedure for prosecution is provided by a special law. Notwithstanding the first paragraph of this Article, Articles 393 to 397-5 shall apply to the offences provided for in Articles 24 and 24 bis and the third and fourth paragraphs of Article 33 of the law…

If the public prosecutor considers that the acts for which the person is brought before him pursuant to article 393 should, due to their seriousness or complexity, be the subject of an investigation falling within the jurisdiction of an investigating division when there is no such division within the judicial court and the elements of the case appear to him to require a measure of pre-trial detention, it may request…