Interpretation of Art. 10 of Directive (EU) 2016/680 (protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data for the purpose of combating criminal offences) – Processing of special categories of personal data – Collection of biometric data – Taking of fingerprints and of photographs – Person reasonably suspected on one or more grounds of having committed or attempted to commit a criminal offence – Strict necessity – Obligation to state reasons – Refusal of the data subject to consent to the collection of his or her biometric data – National legislation allowing a person to be prosecuted for and convicted of a specific criminal offence penalising such a refusal, even in the absence of any prosecution or conviction in respect of the criminal offence that formed the basis of the envisaged collection of those data

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