In application of the last paragraph of Article 118 and in accordance with the provisions of the fifth paragraph of Article 52-1, the investigating judge of the court that does not have an investigating division, who establishes that the acts of which the person under investigation is accused under a correctional charge actually constitute a crime:
1° Shall relinquish jurisdiction of his own motion or at the request of the public prosecutor in favour of a judge from the investigating division in the case of a crime punishable by thirty years’ imprisonment or life imprisonment, or a crime committed as a repeat offender ;
2° Relinquishes jurisdiction in favour of a judge from the investigating division at the request of the public prosecutor in the case of a crime punishable by fifteen years’ or twenty years’ imprisonment, committed in the absence of legal recidivism and where the public prosecutor considers that it results from the circumstances of the case and its complexity that recourse to co-investigation during the course of the investigation does not appear unlikely.