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Article 13 Any individual is assured of the inviolability of their person, their domicile and of the secrecy of their correspondence. No search may take place except by virtue of the law and on written order of the competent judicial authority, except in the case of flagrante delicto. No one may be punished except by virtue of a law promulgated and published prior to the commission of the punishable act. No one may be punished twice for the same act. The law assures to all the right that justice will be rendered, and that insufficiency of resources will not be an obstacle. The State guarantees the plenitude and the inviolability of the rights to defense before all the jurisdictions and at all the stages of the procedure, including that of the preliminary investigation, and at the level of the judicial police or of prosecution. All moral pressure and/or all physical brutality to apprehend a person or to keep them in detention is prohibited. All defendants or accused have the right to the presumption of innocence until their guilt has been established by a decision of justice becoming definitive. Preventive detention is an exception.