Section 19 Provisional arrest
Where the conditions for the issuing of a warrant of arrest pending extradition are met, the public prosecution office and police officers are authorised to make a provisional arrest. Under the conditions of section 127 (1) sentence 1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, any person is authorised to make a provisional arrest.
Section 22
Procedure following provisional arrest
(1) Upon their provisional arrest, persons pursued are to be brought before the judge at the nearest local court without delay, but no later than the day following their arrest.
(2) The judge at the local court hears persons pursued without delay after they are brought before the court, but no later than the following day, about their personal circumstances, in particular nationality. The judge draws their attention to the right to avail themselves of the services of legal counsel (section 40) at any stage of the proceedings and to the fact that they are free to either make a statement or not make a statement regarding the offence of which they are accused. The judge then asks whether and, if so, for what reasons they wish to object to extradition or to the provisional arrest. Section 21 (2) sentence 4 applies accordingly.
(3) If it transpires in the course of the hearing that the person apprehended is not the person to which the request or the facts referred to in section 17 (2) no. 4 pertain, then the judge at the local court orders that person’s release. Otherwise, the judge at the local court orders that the person pursued be detained until the higher regional court gives its decision. Section 21 (4) sentence 2 and (6) and (7) applies accordingly.
Part 2 Surrender of Persons
§ 32 Streamlined Surrender
(relating to Article 92 para. 3 sentence 2 of the Rome Statute)
(1) The surrender of a person against whom there is an arrest warrant for surrender and as to whom the Court has requested arrest and surrender or provisional arrest, may be approved without implementing formal surrender proceedings when the suspect, after instruction by the court that is set forth in the court record of proceedings, declares his agreement with such streamlined surrender.
(2) The agreement cannot be rescinded.
(3) Upon motion of the public prosecution office attached to the Higher Regional Court, in cases under §§ 14 and 15, the judge of the District Court or otherwise the Higher Regional Court, shall instruct the suspect regarding the possibility of streamlined surrender and the legal consequences thereof (paragraphs 1 and 2) and shall enter its explanation into the record of proceedings. Jurisdiction lies with the judge of the District Court in whose district the suspect is located.
1. En caso de urgencia, la Corte podrá solicitar la detención provisional de la persona buscada hasta que se presente la solicitud de entrega y los documentos que la justifiquen de conformidad con el artículo 91.
2. La solicitud de detención provisional deberá hacerse por cualquier medio que permita dejar constancia escrita y contendrá:
(a) Información suficiente para identificar a la persona buscada y datos sobre su probable paradero;
(b) Una exposición concisa de los crímenes por los que se pida la detención y de los hechos que presuntamente serían constitutivos de esos crímenes, inclusive, de ser posible, la indicación de la fecha y el lugar en que se cometieron;
(c) Una declaración de que existe una orden de detención o una decisión final condenatoria respecto de la persona buscada; y
(d) Una declaración de que se presentará una solicitud de entrega de la persona buscada.
3. La persona sometida a detención provisional podrá ser puesta en libertad si el Estado requerido no hubiere recibido la solicitud de entrega y los documentos que la justifiquen, de conformidad con el artículo 91, dentro del plazo fijado en las Reglas de Procedimiento y Prueba. Sin embargo, el detenido podrá consentir en la entrega antes de que se cumpla dicho plazo siempre que lo permita el derecho interno del Estado requerido. En ese caso, el Estado requerido procederá a entregar al detenido a la Corte tan pronto como sea posible.
4. El hecho de que la persona buscada haya sido puesta en libertad de conformidad con el párrafo 3 no obstará para que sea nuevamente detenida y entregada una vez que el Estado requerido reciba la solicitud de entrega y los documentos que la justifiquen.