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Article 706-84 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The real identity of the officers or agents of the judicial police who carried out the infiltration under an assumed identity must not appear at any stage of the proceedings. Revealing the identity of these officers or judicial police agents is punishable by five years’ imprisonment and a fine of €75,000. When this revelation has caused violence, assault and battery against these persons or their spouses, children and direct ascendants,…

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Article 706-85 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In the event of a decision to interrupt the operation or at the end of the period set by the decision authorising the infiltration and in the absence of an extension, the undercover agent may continue the activities mentioned in Article 706-82, without being criminally liable, for the time strictly necessary to enable him to cease his surveillance in conditions that ensure his safety, without this period exceeding four months….

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Article 706-86 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The judicial police officer under whose responsibility the undercover operation takes place may alone be heard as a witness on the operation. However, if the report referred to in the third paragraph of Article 706-81 that the person under investigation or appearing before the trial court is directly implicated by findings made by an agent who personally carried out the undercover operations, this person may ask to be confronted with…

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Article 706-87 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

No conviction may be handed down solely on the basis of statements made by judicial police officers or agents who have carried out an undercover operation. The provisions of this article shall not, however, apply where judicial police officers or agents give evidence under their true identity.

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Article 706-88 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

For the application of articles 63,77 and 154, if the requirements of the investigation or inquiry relating to one of the offences falling within the scope of Article 706-73 requires it, a person’s police custody may, exceptionally, be extended by two additional twenty-four-hour periods each. These extensions are authorised, by written and reasoned decision, either, at the request of the public prosecutor, by the liberty and custody judge, or by…

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Article 706-88-1 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If it emerges from the initial elements of the investigation or from police custody itself that there is a serious risk of imminent terrorist action in France or abroad, or that the requirements of international cooperation make this imperative, the juge des libertés may, exceptionally and in accordance with the procedures set out in the second paragraph of Article 706-88, decide that the current police custody of a person, based…

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Article 706-89 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If the requirements of the flagrante investigation relating to one of the offences falling within the scope of Articles 706-73 and 706-73-1 so require, the liberty and custody judge of the judicial court may, at the request of the public prosecutor, authorise searches, domiciliary visits and seizures of exhibits to be carried out outside the hours provided for in Article 59.

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Article 706-90 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If the needs of the preliminary investigation relating to one of the offences falling within the scope of Articles 706-73 and 706-73-1 so require, the liberty and custody judge of the judicial court may, at the request of the public prosecutor, decide that searches, home visits and seizures of exhibits may be carried out outside the hours provided for in Article 59, when these operations do not concern residential premises….

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Article 706-91 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

If the requirements of the information relating to one of the offences falling within the scope of articles 706-73 and 706-73-1 require it, the examining magistrate may authorise judicial police officers acting on a letter rogatory to carry out searches, home visits and seizures of exhibits outside the hours provided for in Article 59, when these operations do not involve residential premises. In urgent cases, the investigating judge may also…

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Article 706-92 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

On pain of nullity, the authorisations provided for in articles 706-89 to 706-91 are given for specific searches and are the subject of a written order, specifying the nature of the offence for which proof is sought and the address of the premises in which the visits, searches and seizures may be carried out; this order, which may not be appealed, shall be reasoned by reference to the factual and…

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