BOOK II
FELONIES AND MISDEMEANOURS AGAINST PERSONS
TITLE I
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND AGAINST PERSONS
SUBTITLE I
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
CHAPTER I
GENOCIDE
ARTICLE 211-1
Genocide occurs where, in the enforcement of a concerted plan aimed at the partial or total destruction of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, or of a group determined by any other arbitrary criterion, one of the following actions are committed or caused to be committed against members of that group :
- wilful attack on life ;
- serious attack on psychological or physical integrity ;
- subjection to living conditions likely to entail the partial or total destruction of that group ;
- measures aimed at preventing births ;
- enforced child transfers.
Genocide is punished by criminal imprisonment for life.
The first two paragraphs of article 132-23 governing the safety period apply to the felony provided for by the present article.
BOOK IV
SOME SPECIFIC PROCEEDINGS
TITLE I
CO-OPERATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
CHAPTER I
JUDICIAL CO-OPERATION
SECTION I
MUTUAL JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE
Article 627
For the application of the International Criminal court statute of 18 July 1998, France participates in the punishment of offences and co-operates with this court under the conditions determined by the present title.
The provisions which follow apply to any person prosecuted by the International Criminal Court or convicted by this court of acts which constitute genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes, in the sense of articles 6 to 8 and 25 of the statute.
1. The jurisdiction of the Court shall be limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole. The Court has jurisdiction in accordance with this Statute with respect to the following crimes:
(a) The crime of genocide;