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Article 803-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

When a person prosecuted or convicted by the French courts is arrested outside national territory in application of the provisions on the European arrest warrant or extradition or in application of an international convention, he or she may declare to the competent foreign authorities that he or she is exercising the remedies provided for by this code, in particular by lodging an opposition, appeal or recourse against the decision against…

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Article 803-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For the application of the right of a suspected or accused person, provided for by III of Preliminary Article, to an interpreter or a translation, the present article shall apply. If there is any doubt as to the ability of the suspected or accused person to understand the French language, the authority conducting the hearing or before which that person appears shall verify that the person speaks and understands that…

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Article 803-6 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Any suspected or accused person subject to a measure involving deprivation of liberty pursuant to a provision of this Code shall, at the time of notification of such measure, be given a document setting out, in simple and accessible terms and in a language that he or she understands, the following rights, which he or she enjoys during the proceedings pursuant to this Code: 1° The right to be informed…

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Article 803-7 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Where a court orders the immediate release of a person whose pre-trial detention is unlawful due to non-compliance with the time limits or formalities provided for in this Code, it may, in the same decision, place the person under judicial supervision if this measure is essential to ensure one of the objectives listed in Article 144. When, other than in the cases provided for in the first paragraph of this…

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Article 803-8 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

I.-Without prejudice to its right to apply to the administrative court pursuant to articles L. 521-1, L. 521-2 or L. 521-3 of the Code of Administrative Justice, any person detained in a prison in application of this Code who considers that the conditions of detention are contrary to human dignity may apply to the liberty and custody judge, if they are in pre-trial detention, or to the sentence enforcement judge,…

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Article 804 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

This Code is applicable, in its wording resulting from Law No. 2023-703 of 1 August 2023 relating to military programming for the years 2024 to 2030 and containing various provisions concerning defence, in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, subject to the adaptations provided for in this Title and with the sole exceptions: 1° For New Caledonia and French Polynesia, from the fifth paragraph of Article…

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Article 805 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For the application of this code in the overseas collectivities and New Caledonia: 1° References to the department are replaced by references to the collectivity; 2° References to the prefect and sub-prefect are replaced by references to the State representative in the collectivity. In the absence of adaptation, references made, by provisions of this code applicable in the overseas collectivities and New Caledonia, to provisions that do not apply there…

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Article 808 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The second paragraph of article 2-8 is worded as follows: “Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years at the date of the events and whose purpose, by virtue of its articles of association, is to defend or assist disabled people may also exercise the rights granted to civil parties in respect of breaches of locally applicable legislative or regulatory provisions relating to the accessibility of…

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