France

Code Penal

BOOK II
FELONIES AND MISDEMEANOURS AGAINST PERSONS

TITLE I
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND AGAINST PERSONS

SUBTITLE I
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

CHAPTER III
COMMON PROVISIONS

ARTICLE 213-4

The perpetrator or the accomplice to a felony under the present title is not exonerated from his responsibility on the sole basis that he performed an act prescribed or authorised by statutory or regulatory provisions, or an act ordered by legitimate authority. A court shall nevertheless take this circumstance into account when deciding the nature and extent of the sentence.

Keywords

Superior orders - national proceedings



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