Law Perben II

The Law Perben II , or more precisely the law relating to the adaptation of justice to the evolutions of the criminality, is a French law primarily intended to fight against the Délinquance and organized criminality.

It was published the March 10th 2004 in the official journal and draws its name from the ex Minister of Justice of the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin: Dominique Perben.

Perimeter of application

Article 706-73 of the criminal procedure code specifies the restrictive fields to which the law Perben II as regards organized criminality applies: murder, Torture and barbarous acts, traffic of Narcotic S, removal and sequestration, draft of the human beings, Procuring, flight, extortion, destruction or degradation or deterioration of a good, counterfeit money, acts of Terrorism, Weapon S, assistance at the entry and circulation and with the irregular stays from abroad in France, bleaching and concealment, criminal conspiracy referring to the caused fields.

This law creates within eight Courts of Bankruptcy (Paris, Lyon, Marseilles, Lille, Nancy, Bordeaux, Rennes and Fort de France) the specialized interregional jurisdictions which have the role to treat phenomena of criminality of great complexity aimed to article 706-73 of the criminal procedure code, with trans-regional or international dimension.

Are excluded from the law the financial Criminalité and the financial Corruption, the legislator having considered that “by nature, corruption is seldom the fact of organized bands” (declaration of the senator François Zocchetto rapporteur of the bill).

This law makes come into effect to France the recognition preliminary of culpability, also called the “guilty Plaider” and the publication of a book or to take part in a film of television or cinema because not of its contents but of the personality of its author.

See too

legal File automated of the authors of sexual offenses

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