Title IV: Common provisions

A technical device may be used, by means of airborne cameras, for the purpose of capturing, fixing, transmitting and recording without their consent the image of one or more persons in a public place, if this operation is required by the necessities: 1° An investigation or enquiry into a crime or misdemeanour punishable by at least three years’ imprisonment; 2° An investigation or enquiry into the causes of death or…

The technical device referred to in article 230-47 is authorised: 1° As part of a flagrante delicto investigation, a preliminary investigation or a procedure provided for in articles 74 to 74-2, by the public prosecutor, for a maximum period of one month, renewable once; 2° As part of an investigation or inquiry into the causes of death or the causes of disappearance mentioned in articles 74,74-1 and 80-4, by the…

The decision authorising the use of the device referred to in article 230-47 shall include all the information needed to identify the places concerned and shall specify its duration. The authorisation of the public prosecutor or investigating judge, which may be given by any means, is mentioned or placed in the case file. It has no judicial character and is not subject to appeal.

The operations provided for in this chapter shall take place under the authority and control of the magistrate who authorised them. This magistrate may order their interruption at any time. The operations may not, on pain of nullity, have a purpose other than that for which they were authorised. The fact that these operations reveal other offences does not constitute a cause of invalidity of the incidental proceedings.