BOOK II
FELONIES AND MISDEMEANOURS AGAINST PERSONS
TITLE II
OFFENCES AGAINST THE HUMAN PERSON
CHAPTER II
OFFENCES AGAINST THE OR PHYSICAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL INTEGRITY OF THE PERSON
SECTION I
WILFUL OFFENCES AGAINST THE PHYSICAL INTEGRITY OF THE PERSON
Paragraph 1
Torture and acts of barbarity
ARTICLE 222-3
(Act no. 96-647 of 22 July 1996 Article 13 Official Journal of 23 July 1996)
(Act no. 99-505 of 18 June 1999 Article 14 Official Journal of 19 June 1999)
(Act no. 2003-88 of 3 February 2003 Article 3 Official Journal of 4 February 2003)
(Act no. 2003-239 of 18 March 2003 Article 47 III, Article 60 I, II Official Journal of 19 March 2003)
The offence defined in article 222-1 is punished by twenty years' criminal imprisonment where it is committed :
1° against a minor under fifteen years of age ;
2° against a person whose particular vulnerability, due to age, sickness, physical or psychological disability or to pregnancy, is apparent or known to the perpetrator ;
3° against a natural or legitimate ascendant or the adoptive father or mother ;
4° against a judge or prosecutor, a juror, an advocate, a legal professional officer or a public officer, a member of the gendarmerie, a civil servant of the national police, customs, the penitentiary administration or against any other person holding public authority or discharging a public service mission, a fireman (whether professional or volunteer), the accredited warden of a building or group of buildings or an agent carrying out on behalf of the tenant the duty of caring for or watching an inhabited building in pursuance of article L. 127.1 of the Code of Construction and Habitation, in the exercise or on account of his functions or mission, when the capacity of the victim is known or apparent to the perpetrator ;
Retaliating against an official of the Court
EDIT.