PRELIMINARY TITLE
PUBLIC PROSECUTION AND CIVIL ACTION
Article 2-1
Any association lawfully registered for at least five years on the date of offence, proposing through its constitution to combat racism or to assist the victims of discrimination grounded on their national, ethnic, racial or religious origin, may exercise the rights granted to the civil party in respect of, first, discrimination punished by articles 225-2 and 432-7 of the Criminal Code and the creation or the possession of the files prohibited under article 226-19 of the same code, and, secondly, the intentional offences against the life or physical integrity of persons, threats, theft, extortion, and destruction, defacement and damage, committed to the prejudice of a person because of his national origin, or his membership or non-membership, real or supposed, to any given ethnic group, race or religion.
1. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘crime against humanity’ means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(g) ‘Persecution’ means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international law by reason of the identity of the group or collectivity;