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Article 68 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The arrival of the public prosecutor at the scene relieves the judicial police officer. The public prosecutor then performs all the judicial police acts provided for in this chapter. He may also instruct any judicial police officers to continue the operations.

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Article 69 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If the needs of the investigation so require, the Public Prosecutor or the Examining Magistrate, when proceeding as described in this chapter, may travel to the jurisdictions of the courts bordering the one in which he or she exercises his or her functions, in order to continue his or her investigations there. He must first notify the public prosecutor of the court to which he is travelling. He must state…

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Article 70 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If the needs of the investigation into a flagrant crime or a flagrant offence punishable by at least three years’ imprisonment so require, the public prosecutor may, without prejudice to the application of the provisions of Article 73, issue a search warrant for any person against whom there are one or more plausible grounds for suspecting that he has committed or attempted to commit the offence. For the execution of…

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Article 72 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

When the public prosecutor and the investigating judge are simultaneously at the scene, the public prosecutor may request the opening of a regular investigation to be referred to the investigating judge present, by way of derogation, where applicable, from the provisions of article 83.

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Article 73 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In cases of flagrant crime or flagrant misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment, any person is entitled to apprehend the perpetrator and bring him before the nearest judicial police officer. When the person is brought before the judicial police officer, it is not compulsory for them to be held in police custody, where the conditions for this measure laid down in this Code are met, provided that they are not required to…

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Article 74 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In the event of the discovery of a body, whether a violent death or not, but if the cause is unknown or suspicious, the judicial police officer who is notified or, under his supervision, the judicial police officer shall immediately inform the public prosecutor, go to the scene without delay and make the first observations. The public prosecutor shall go to the scene if he deems it necessary and shall…

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Article 74-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

When the disappearance of a minor or a protected adult of full age has just occurred or has been noted, officers of the judicial police or, under their supervision, judicial police officers may, on the instructions of the public prosecutor, carry out the acts provided for in the articles 56 to 62, for the purpose of discovering the missing person. At the end of a period of eight days from…

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Article 74-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Officers of the judicial police, assisted where necessary by agents of the judicial police, may, on the instructions of the public prosecutor, carry out the acts provided for in the Articles 56 to 62 for the purpose of searching for and discovering a person who is absconding in the following cases: 1° A person who is the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the investigating judge, the liberty and…

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