Création d’un fichier national des empreintes génétiques pour l’identification des victimes et personnes disparues

This is a bill proposed in the French National Assembly (15th legislature) to create a national file of genetic fingerprints (DNA profiles). Its stated purpose, based on the title, is to help identify victims and locate missing persons. Such files generally allow DNA from unidentified remains or from relatives to be compared with stored profiles. This summary is based on metadata only, not the full text of the bill, so the exact rules on access, retention and oversight are not described here. The bill would mainly affect missing persons and their families, as well as investigators, forensic services and judicial authorities who would use the file. Because it involves storing genetic data, it also raises privacy and data protection questions for the people whose profiles would be recorded.