Police in France are denying suspects the right to legal representation when taken in for questioning, the head of Paris’s legal profession has claimed.
The bâtonnier de Paris Christian Charrière-Boumazel – the president of the Paris bar who represents 21,000 lawyers – said French custody conditions were illegal according to the EU.
He said the European Court of Human Rights had ruled in November 2008 and again last month that a suspect has a right to have a lawyer present from the moment they enter custody to organise their defence and prepare for questioning.'
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