Sub-title II: Courts with jurisdiction to prosecute, investigate and try crimes against humanity and war crimes and offences

The duties of specialist assistant may be carried out in the courts and magistrates referred to in article 628-1 category A and B civil servants as well as persons holding, in subjects defined by decree, a national diploma attesting to training of at least four years’ duration in higher education after the baccalaureate who meet the conditions for access to the civil service and provide proof of at least four…

This subtitle shall also apply, where French criminal law is applicable, to crimes of torture within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment adopted in New York on 10 December 1984 and to crimes of enforced disappearance. .