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Article D116-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The misconduct of the convicted offender during the execution of his custodial sentence likely to give rise to a decision to withdraw the sentence reduction by the sentence enforcement judge pursuant to article 721 may result in particular from the fact that the convicted offender refuses to submit to the biological sampling provided for in the first paragraph of I of article 706-56 or commits or attempts to commit manoeuvres intended to substitute his own biological material for the biological material of a third person, when he has been convicted of the offence provided for in II of this Article 706-56.

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Article D116-5

La mauvaise conduite du condamné pendant l’exécution de sa peine privative de liberté susceptible de donner lieu à une décision de retrait de la réduction de peine par le juge de l’application des peines en application de l’article 721 peut notamment résulter du fait par le condamné de refuser de se soumettre au prélèvement biologique prévu au premier alinéa du I de l’article 706-56 ou de commettre ou de tenter de commettre des manœuvres destinées à substituer à son propre matériel biologique le matériel biologique d’une tierce personne, lorsqu’il a été condamné pour le délit prévu par le II de cet article 706-56.

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