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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Conditions for extradition

Article 696-5

If, for a single offence, extradition is requested concurrently by several States, it shall be granted in preference to the State against whose interests the offence was directed, or to the State on w…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Conditions for extradition

Article 696-7

In the event that a person claimed is being prosecuted or has been convicted in France, and his extradition is requested from the French Government on account of a different offence, surrender shall b…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Simplified extradition procedure

Article 696-29

If the Investigating Chamber finds that the legal conditions for extradition have been met, it shall issue a judgment in which it acknowledges the person claimed's formal consent to be extradited and,…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Conditions for extradition

Article 696-6

Subject to the exceptions provided for in Article 696-34, extradition shall be granted only on condition that the person extradited will not be prosecuted or convicted for an offence other than that f…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Simplified extradition procedure

Article 696-26

…iling which the proceedings shall be null and void.The person concerned shall have the right to the assistance of a lawyer under the conditions provided for in the second and third paragraphs of l'art…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Effects of extradition

Article 696-35

In the event that the requesting government seeks, for an offence prior to extradition, authorisation to prosecute or enforce a sentence concerning the person already surrendered, the opinion of the i…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Conditions for extradition

Article 696-3

The acts which may give rise to extradition, whether it is a question of requesting it or granting it, are as follows: 1° All acts punishable by criminal penalties under the law of the requesting Stat…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Simplified extradition procedure

Article 696-30

If the person claimed lodges, within the legal time limit, an appeal in cassation against the decision of the Investigating Chamber granting his extradition, the President of the Criminal Division of…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 3: Simplified extradition procedure

Article 696-33

The provisions of Articles 696-26 to 696-32 are applicable if the person whose provisional arrest has been requested is the subject of an extradition request and consents to being extradited more than…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Effects of extradition

Article 696-39

A surrendered person shall be deemed to be unreservedly subject to the laws of the requesting State, by reason of any act prior to the extradition and different from the offence for which the extradit…

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