Search and seizure: The French judiciary supreme court refuses to refer three requests for preliminary ruling to the French Constitutional Council (Free Mobile)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In recent days, the Court of Cassation has posted two rulings online n° 2116 and n° 2117 On 26 July 2017, the Criminal Chamber handed down its ruling in cases between Free Mobile and the DGCCRF, concerning the visits and seizures carried out on the premises of the former by the latter. On the occasion of the appeal in cassation, the Free Mobile company raised three priority questions of constitutionality. In the first question, Free Mobile, presenting itself as a media company, essentially asked whether the fact that Article L. 450-4 of the Commercial Code does not require the presence of the judge who