Book 2: Investigation of Offences, Collection of Evidence and Initial Investigation
Section 1: Investigating Offences 39-46
Article 43
When a crime scene officer, within his area of competence as specified in Article 39, is informed or becomes aware that an offence has been committed in the presence of witnesses, he is required to notify the investigative judge and the Public Prosecution of the occurrence of the offence, to go immediately to the place where the offence occurred, to take down in writing a statement from the victim of the offence, to orally question the person about the accusation made against him, to impound any weapons and anything that may appear to him to have been used in the commission of the offence, to examine and preserve any material traces of the offence, to establish the status and whereabouts of the persons involved and or anything else that may assist in investigating the offence, to hear statements by any person who was present or that can obtained from other persons concerning the facts of the case or the perpetrator of the offence and to cause a written record of all such information to be duly made.
1. Les États Parties font droit, conformément aux dispositions du présent chapitre et aux procédures prévues par leur législation nationale, aux demandes d'assistance de la Cour liées à une enquête ou à des poursuites et concernant :
g) L'examen de localités ou de sites, notamment l'exhumation et l'examen de cadavres enterrés dans des fosses communes ;