Article D45-19 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure
For the application of the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 495-19 and first paragraph of article 495-21, only requests or complaints in which the person either denies having committed the offence, or admits having committed the offence while providing detailed information likely to justify discontinuing the proceedings for legal or expediency reasons, are considered to be reasoned. The public prosecutor forwards the dispute mentioned in the third paragraph…