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(5) The pursuit in para. (1) may take place only for one of the following acts:
a) manslaughter, murder;
b) rape;
c) destruction and aggravated destruction, committed through arson, explosion or any
other such means;
d) forgery of money and other assets;
e) aggravated burglary and robbery and receiving stolen goods;
f ) extortion;
g) kidnapping and hostage taking;
h) trafficking in human beings and related offences;
i) illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs or precursors;
j) breach of the laws on arms and explosives, nuclear matters and other radioactive
matters;
k) illegal carriage of toxic and dangerous waste;
l) leaving the site of an accident without approval from the police or the prosecutor
who is performing on-site investigation, by the driver of any vehicle that has been involved in an
accident which has resulted in death or injury to the corporal integrity or health of one or several
persons.
(6) Where the competent Romanian authorities do not request cessation of the pursuit and
to the extent that they are unable to intervene with sufficient speed, the foreign officers who are
conducting the pursuit may keep in their custody the person being pursued, until the Romanian
officers establish the identity or until the person is held for questioning or placed under preven-
tive arrest, where appropriate, under the conditions set forth in the law, while at once informing
of this the Romanian officers.
(7) A person who, following the action provided for in paragraph (6), has been arrested by
the Romanian competent authorities may, whatever that person’s nationality, be held for ques-
tioning. The provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code shall apply accordingly. If the person is
not a Romanian citizen, that person shall be released not later than six hours after the arrest was
made, not including the hours between midnight and 9.00 a.m., unless the Romanian competent
authorities have previously received a request for that person’s provisional arrest for the purposes
of extradition in any form whatsoever.
ARTICLE 18710
Liability of foreign officers
(1) During the operations and activities mentioned in Article 1878 and Article 1879, the fore-
ign pursuing officers shall be equated with the persons who have the same capacity in Romania
in what concerns the offences committed against them or by them.