In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the USA in 2001, the French government increased the scope of the database to include DNA related to other serious criminal offences, such as voluntary manslaughter, criminal violence and terrorism.
In September 2009, Matthieu Bonduelle, the general secretary of the Syndicat de la magistrature (the first syndicat of juges) has declared that « nobody has pronounced himself in aid of a global filing, but, in fact, it is being done.