Jim_M
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I had to go look up the Code de procédure pénale. Relevant bits start with article 144-1, if anyone is as daft as I am (!) and wants to know the details.
In brief, it's longer than I thought, subject to certain and strict conditions.
Basically: 4 months - 1 year (which can be extended in 6 month increments if necessary), depending on the possible crime/possible charges (remember that as yet he has not been charged!), AND the suspect's previous convictions.
If I have time tonight, and can bear the eye-stabbing migraine it will probably induce, I'll sort out a translation and links to relevant legal code and interpretation.
Just a quick question, if I may? Has there been any report of the suspect having his DNA profile compared in their database? I am assuming that France has similar access, as the Codis system used by our FBI?
IMO that intermingled DNA should be enough to hold him until he tells them where to find young Maëlys. He needs to tell them now!