Investigating judges have spent years raiding premises, confiscating documents, decrypting computer files and interrogating witnesses, including two French former spymasters.
Michèle Alliot-Marie, the justice minister, is working on a draft law to this effect, to be presented in the new year.France's 600-odd investigating judges, a central feature of its inquisitorial system, can put suspects under formal investigation, order wiretaps, raid and search premises, confiscate documents, and summon and interrogate witnesses.
Starting from the modest premise of documenting several months of Pina Bausch's performances and rehearsals in the summer of 1983, the director Chantal Akerman realized one of the greatest of all syntheses of dance and cinema.
Its premise: signing a document should be free and simple.
Also, an expanded article on military courts specifies that civilians may be tried there for "direct attacks" on military premises, personnel, equipment, documents or funds.
The premise of the document is that energy reform starts with regulatory reform.
It says in part that a host country cannot search diplomatic premises or seize its documents or property.
Brasília's police force has searched Ailanto's premises in Rio de Janeiro, seizing documents.Alongside these deals run three others whose purposes are not immediately obvious.
They can initiate investigations — on the recommendation of a prosecutor or victims — and can raid and search premises, order wiretaps, confiscate documents and summon witnesses.
Rick Berke, The Times's national editor, said it was necessary to print the unpalatable details to document the premise of the piece.
