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6. DetentionArticle 141(1) Detention may be ordered only by a court decision made pursuant to therequirements prescribed in this Code and if detention is necessary for the purpose ofconducting criminal proceedings and where the same purpose cannot be achieved byanother measure.(2) All authorities participating in the criminal proceedings and authorities rendering themlegal assistance have a duty to limit the duration of the detention to the shortest possibleperiod and to act with particular exigency where the accused person is in detention.(3) Detention shall be repealed at any time during the entire duration of the proceedingswhen the grounds for ordering it cease to exist.Article 142(1) Detention may be ordered against persons reasonably suspected of havingcommitted a criminal offence if:1) they are in hiding or their identity cannot be established, or if there existother circumstances indicating a flight risk;2) there exist circumstances indicating that they will destroy, conceal, changeor forge evidence or traces of a criminal offence or if particular circumstancesindicate that they will disrupt the proceedings by exerting influence onwitnesses, expert witnesses, accomplices or concealers;3) particular circumstances indicate that they will commit a criminal offenceagain, or complete a criminal offence already commenced, or perpetrate acriminal offence they have threatened to commit;4) in the capacity of a defendant once duly served a summons obviouslyavoids coming to the trial;5) the criminal offence with which he is charged is punishable by a term ofimprisonment of more than ten years, or more than five years in the case of acriminal offence with an element of violence and where it is justified by theparticularly serious circumstances of the criminal offence;6) by a judgement of a court of first instance the person has been sentencedto serve a custodial penalty of five years or more and where it is justified bythe particularly serious circumstances of the criminal offence.(2) In the case referred to in item 1) of paragraph 1 of this Article, detention ordered dueto a failure to identify a person shall last until the identity is established. In the casereferred to in item 2) of paragraph 1 of this Article, detention shall be repealed as soon