Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

France

France - Criminal Code 1994 (2005) EN

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 :

- serious attack on psychological or physical integrity ;

Rome Statute

Article 6 Genocide

For the purpose of this Statute, ‘genocide’ means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;