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.
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