garde à vue

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The l'Essentiel Affair

CICNS case file on the 20 November 2000 raid by sixty armed gendarmes on the small Terranova spiritual community in the Aveyron, and the five years of surveillance, custody and trial that framed it.

Religious freedom & law

Police Raids, Searches and Garde à Vue: What Are Your Rights?

CICNS's legal guide to police raids, searches and garde à vue custody as experienced by spiritual minorities in France, with statutory rules, time limits and first-hand raid testimony.