'Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, other groups' in document 'France - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

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 :