Thesis
French
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33912>
Abstract
In France, just as in Canada, a person that hasn’t been declared guilty yet can be placed in preventive custody to ensure the proper going of the investigation and of justice’s work or simply for security mesures. However, the number of detained convicts and their amount of time spent in custody are growing significantly and reaching an alarming state, especially in France. The following research concerns the repercussions of preventive detention on the fundamentals rights, such as the right of a fair trial. Even though many legal guarantees surround preventive detention, it causes numerous violation of the convict rights, by anticipating, before the actual trial, the questions of guilt and sentence of the defendant. However, the impacts of the preventive detention on the right of freedom and security, the presumption of innocence, the right of a neutral court, the right to have a contradictory trial, the right to be judged in a reasonabe timeframe, don’t affect every defendant the same way, leading, as well, to a violation of the right to stand equal before the law.