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In flagranti is a phrase taken from Latin (actually: in (crimine) flagranti "as long as the crime is still burning") and means "in the act". It is the ablative of the term crimen flagrans ( burning crime ).
In the English-speaking world , the term in flagrante delicto is also used.
Examples:
- The police caught the thief red-handed as he was about to upgrade a car radio.
- The husband caught his wife red-handed with her lover.
origin
The original legal formula goes back to a formulation in the Codex Iustinianus published by Tribonianus from 529 to 534 . There it says: in ipsa rapina et adhuc flagrante crimine comprehensi . (You were caught directly carrying out the robbery and committing the crime ).
Legal situation in Germany
Nowadays the freshness of the fact is one of the prerequisites for an everyone arrest according to Section 127 (1) sentence 1 StPO.
Even in predatory theft according to § 252 StGB the freshness occurs: there the perpetrator must be affected red-handed after the removal in order to be able to fulfill the offense.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden: in flagranti
- ↑ Codex Iustinianus 9,13,1 online resource
- ^ Lutz Röhrich : Act. In: Lexicon of the proverbial sayings. Herder, Freiburg i. Br., New edition 1991, vol. 5, p. 1602
