PART TWO
PROCEEDINGS AT FIRST INSTANCE
CHAPTER VI
MAIN HEARING
Section 231.
[Defendant’s Duty to Bebe Present]
(1) A defendant who has appeared may not absent himself from the hearing. The presiding judge may take appropriate measures to prevent the defendant from absenting himself; he may also have the defendant kept in custody during an interruption of the hearing.
(2) If the defendant nevertheless absents himself, or fails to appear when an interrupted main hearing is continued, the main hearing may be concluded in his absence if he has already been examined on the indictment and the court does not consider his further presence to be necessary .
Fair trial standards
Trials in absentia
EDIT.