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.
Superior orders - national proceedings
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