58The request for a preliminary ruling does not state whether the nature and cause of the accusation against IR, as set out in the new indictment, including so far as concerns the legal classification of the acts alleged, correspond to those set out in the initial indictment. Nor does it state whether service of a new indictment proved necessary solely because the initial indictment was vitiated by a formal defect. If the referring court were to find that the content of the new indictment corresponds to the initial indictment and that, whilst that new indictment could not be served on IR in person, it was sent and delivered to the address which he had communicated to the authorities responsible for the investigation after receiving the initial indictment, such circumstances could constitute precise and objective indicia enabling it to be held that IR – having, in accordance with Directive 2012/13/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2012 on the right to information in criminal proceedings (OJ 2012 L 142, p. 1), been informed of the nature and cause of the accusation against him and, therefore, of the fact that he was going to be brought to trial – prevented the authorities from informing him officially of that trial by leaving, with the intention of evading justice, the address that he had communicated to them. It is, however, for the referring court to carry out all the checks in that regard in the light of all the circumstances of the main proceedings.
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