Any person detained on the territory of the Republic may, if he or she consents, be transferred to the International Criminal Court for the purposes of identification or hearing or for the performance of any other investigative act. The transfer is authorised by the Minister of Justice.
Where the International Criminal Court so requests, the enforcement of fines and confiscation sentences or decisions concerning reparations handed down by the International Criminal Court shall be authorised by the Criminal Court of Paris referred to it, for this purpose, by the Public Prosecutor. The procedure followed before the criminal court is governed by the rules of this code. The court is bound by the decision of the International Criminal…
The authorisation of enforcement issued by the criminal court under the preceding article entails, depending on the decision of the International Criminal Court, the transfer of the proceeds of fines and confiscated property or the proceeds of their sale to the court or to the Victims’ Trust Fund. Such property or sums may also be allocated to the victims, if the court has so decided and proceeded to designate them….
Where, pursuant to Article 103 of the Statute, the Government has agreed to receive a person sentenced by the International Criminal Court on the territory of the Republic in order for that person to serve his sentence of imprisonment there, the sentence pronounced shall be directly and immediately enforceable upon the transfer of that person to national soil, for the portion of the sentence remaining to be served. Subject to…
Upon arrival in France, the transferred person is presented to the public prosecutor of the place of arrival, who will question the person and draw up a report. However, if the examination cannot be carried out immediately, the person is taken to the prison where he or she may not be held for more than twenty-four hours. On expiry of this period, he or she will be brought before the…
If the sentenced person applies for work release, semi-liberty, reduction of sentence, splitting or suspension of sentence, home detention under electronic monitoring or conditional release, the application is sent to the public prosecutor at the court of appeal in whose jurisdiction the person is incarcerated, who forwards it to the Minister of Justice. The latter forwards the request to the International Criminal Court as soon as possible, together with all…
Crimes against humanity and war crimes and misdemeanours, as well as related offences, shall be prosecuted, investigated and tried in accordance with the rules of this Code subject to the provisions of this subtitle.
For the prosecution, investigation and trial of offences falling within the scope of article 628, the anti-terrorist public prosecutor, the investigating judge and the Paris assize court exercise concurrent jurisdiction with that resulting from the application of articles 43 et 52. As regards minors, the anti-terrorist public prosecutor, the investigating judge, the juvenile court and the Paris juvenile assize court exercise concurrent jurisdiction with that resulting from the application of…
The public prosecutor at a judicial court other than that of Paris may, for offences falling within the scope of Article 628, request the investigating judge to relinquish jurisdiction in favour of the Paris investigating court. The parties shall be notified in advance and invited to make their observations by the investigating judge; the order shall be made eight days at the earliest and one month at the latest from…
When it appears to the investigating judge in Paris that the acts referred to him do not constitute one of the offences falling within the scope of Article 628 and do not fall within its jurisdiction in any other respect, this magistrate declares that he has no jurisdiction either at the request of the Anti-Terrorism Public Prosecutor or, after receiving the latter’s opinion, of his own motion or at the…
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