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Article 189 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

New charges include witness statements, exhibits and minutes which, although they could not be submitted to the examining magistrate for examination, are nevertheless of such a nature as either to strengthen the charges which would have been found too weak, or to give the facts new developments useful to the ascertainment of the truth.

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Article 189

Sont considérées comme charges nouvelles les déclarations des témoins, pièces et procès-verbaux qui, n’ayant pu être soumis à l’examen du juge d’instruction, sont cependant de nature soit à fortifier les charges qui auraient été trouvées trop faibles, soit à donner aux faits de nouveaux développements utiles à la manifestation de la vérité.

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