Investigative powers: The Court of Cassation clarifies the obligations weighing on the liberty and custody judge when he authorizes investigators to proceed to visits and seizures during an in-depth investigation (Pirelli, Nexans, Sagem, Draka)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. There will be three more judgments handed down on the same day, 9 February 2005, by the Criminal Division of the Court of Cassation, at the end of which it comes specify the obligations of the judge of freedoms and the detention when it authorizes investigators to carry out visits and detention when it authorizes seized in the context of the major investigation under Article L. 450-4 of the Code of commerce. The first of these judgments focuses on specifying the conditions in which the liberty and custody judge may authorize the investigators to carry out visits and seizures. First of all, it does not matter whether the order of the judge of the freedom