French Code of Criminal Procedure
In forceRelease may be requested at any time from the Investigating Chamber in accordance with the forms provided for in
Articles 148-6 and 148-7.The wanted person's lawyer is summoned, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, at least forty-eight hours before the date of the hearing. After hearing the Public Prosecutor and the requested person or his lawyer, the Investigating Chamber shall rule as soon as possible and at the latest within fifteen days of receiving the request, by a judgment given under the conditions provided for in
Article 199. However, where the wanted person has not yet appeared before the Investigating Chamber, the aforementioned time limits do not begin to run until the first appearance before that court.
The investigating chamber may also, when it orders the release of the wanted person and as a security measure, require the person concerned to submit to one or more of the obligations listed in
articles 138et
142-5.Prior to his release, the wanted person must notify the investigating chamber or the head of the prison of his address.
He is advised that he must notify the Investigating Chamber, by new declaration or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, of any change in the declared address.
She is also advised that any notification or service made to the last declared address will be deemed to have been made to her person.
Note of this notice, as well as of the declaration of address, shall be made either in the minutes or in the document that is sent without delay, in original or copy, by the head of the prison to the investigating chamber.
