Justice: the draft Code of Criminal Procedure submitted to Parliament

The very controversial Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi, has just succeeded in the challenge he set for himself before the deputies by submitting, on January 9, the bill reforming the Code of Criminal Procedure in the First Chamber .

Daily life Assabah, which relays this information this Monday, January 13, affirms, citing well-informed close sources, that the bill had been blocked for several months at the SGG.

The experts from this department were keen to examine the text of the law under their microscope, to ensure the legal and constitutional conformity of its provisions, before its presentation to Parliament.

This, underlines the daily, at a time when the minister continued to defend the new features that his teams, who had worked on the development of this text, had brought to it.

Assabah writes that “it is when the final version of the bill will be presented to the Justice Committee in the First Chamber that we will know what the SGG did not retain as provisions».

According to informed sources,Assabah questioned, the minister wanted the draft Code of Criminal Procedure “toeither the reference text which regulates the right of the State to impose sanctions, based on the rule of law that there is no penalty or sanction except by a judicial decision issued by the competent authority».

This text of law, explains the daily, is a “set of legal rules that govern the procedures for investigating and investigating crimes and the arrest of their perpetrators, regardless of their social rank, including senior officials».

It is also, adds Assabah«to identify the means capable of proving crimes and to determine the authority responsible for prosecuting their perpetrators».

This new law provides:mechanisms to prevent torture, by requiring the Judicial Police and the public prosecutor to submit, when the need arises, any person taken into police custody to a medical examination», specifies the daily.

Likewise, the bill aims “to rationalize the use of preventive detention by limiting its use, which will become an exception».

The cases which resort to this measure, continues the daily, are “clearly explained in the text and only concern, under the specified conditions, misdemeanors and crimes punishable by imprisonment».

With the adoption of this reform, indicates Assabah«an audiovisual recording mechanism will be put in place, systematically activated at the time of reading the suspect’s statements included in the interrogation report, as well as at the time of his signature, or refusal to sign his statements. , while allowing the Prosecutor’s Office to inform public opinion about developments without disclosing the identity of those involved».

Furthermore, according to this text of law, “Digital technologies will be introduced both during the investigation, investigation and trial phase. It will thus be possible to record the minutes of the interrogation on a digital medium, just as it will be possible to use electronic signatures or even biological and genetic fingerprints.».

The new bill also regulates “the cases of infiltration operations of gangs and organized criminal networks, by allowing officers of the judicial police, under the control of the public prosecutor, to track down and monitor people suspected of having committed offenses, in particular by organizing the international arrest warrant procedure».

The law text also reorganizes “the procedures of the judicial exception, while granting the King’s prosecutor at the Court of Cassation the exclusivity, in particular, of issuing arrest warrants against the persons concerned by this procedure, of deciding on their caution- on sight or subject them to any other legal measure».