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Article 627-4 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Requests for arrest with a view to surrender issued by the International Criminal Court shall be sent, in the original and accompanied by all supporting documents, to the competent authorities pursuant to Article 87 of the Statute which, after ensuring that they are formally in order, shall transmit them to the Public Prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal and, at the same time, execute them throughout the territory of the Republic.

In urgent cases, these requests may also be sent directly and by any means to the public prosecutor with territorial jurisdiction. They are then forwarded in the manner provided for in the previous paragraph.

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Article 627-4

Les demandes d’arrestation aux fins de remise délivrées par la Cour pénale internationale sont adressées, en original et accompagnées de toutes pièces justificatives, aux autorités compétentes en vertu de l’article 87 du statut qui, après s’être assurées de leur régularité formelle, les transmettent au procureur général près la cour d’appel de Paris et, dans le même temps, les mettent à exécution dans toute l’étendue du territoire de la République.

En cas d’urgence, ces demandes peuvent aussi être adressées directement et par tout moyen au procureur de la République territorialement compétent. Elles sont ensuite transmises dans les formes prévues à l’alinéa précédent.

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