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Article 77-1-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The Public Prosecutor or, with his authorisation, the judicial police officer or agent or, in the case provided for in 3° of Article 21-3 and under the control of the latter, the investigation assistant, may, by any means, request any person, private or public establishment or body or public administration likely to hold information relevant to the investigation, including, subject to Article 60-1-2, those from a computer system or processing…

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Article 77-1-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

With the authorisation of the public prosecutor, the judicial police officer or agent may carry out the requisitions provided for in the first paragraph of Article 60-2 subject to Article 60-1-2. With the authorisation of the juge des libertés et de la détention (liberty and custody judge) to whom the public prosecutor has referred the matter for this purpose, the police officer or agent may carry out the requisitions provided…

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Article 77-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

I.-At any time during the preliminary investigation, the public prosecutor may, where he considers that this decision is not likely to undermine the effectiveness of the investigations, inform the accused, the victim or their lawyers that a copy of all or part of the case file is being made available to their lawyers, or to them if they are not assisted by a lawyer, and that they have the opportunity…

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Article 77-3 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The request referred to in II of Article 77-2 shall be made to the public prosecutor under whose direction the investigation is being conducted. Failing this, if this information is not known to the person, it may be sent to the public prosecutor of the judicial court within whose jurisdiction one of the acts mentioned in the same article was carried out, who will forward it without delay to the…

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Article 77-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If the needs of the investigation into a crime or offence punishable by at least three years’ imprisonment so require, the public prosecutor may 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. The provisions of the second and third paragraphs of Article 70 shall then apply.

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Article 78 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

People summoned by a judicial police officer for the purposes of an investigation are obliged to appear. The judicial police officer may, with the prior authorisation of the public prosecutor, compel the appearance by force of law of persons who have not responded to a summons to appear or who may be feared not to respond to such a summons. The public prosecutor may also authorise the appearance by force…

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Article 78-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The application of the rules laid down in this chapter is subject to the control of the judicial authorities referred to in articles 12 and 13. Any person on national territory must agree to submit to an identity check carried out under the conditions and by the police authorities referred to in the following articles.

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Article 78-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The judicial police officers and, on their orders and under their responsibility, the judicial police officers and deputy judicial police officers mentioned in articles 20 and 21-1° may ask any person in respect of whom there are one or more plausible grounds for suspecting that : -that he has committed or attempted to commit an offence; -or that he is preparing to commit a crime or an offence; -or that…

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Article 78-2-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

At the request of the public prosecutor, officers of the judicial police and, on their orders or responsibility, officers of the judicial police and deputy officers of the judicial police mentioned in articles 20 and 21 (1°) are empowered to enter premises for professional use, as well as their annexes and outbuildings, unless they constitute a home, where construction, production, processing, repair, service provision or marketing activities are in progress,…

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