BOOK IV
FELONIES AND MISDEMEANOURS AGAINST THE NATION, THE STATE AND THE PUBLIC PEACE
TITLE III
VIOLATION OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE
CHAPTER IV
PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
SECTION II
OBSTRUCTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE
ARTICLE 434-15
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January 2002)
The use of promises, offers, presents, pressures, threats, acts of violence, manoeuvres or tricks in the course of proceedings or in respect of a claim or defence in court to persuade others to make or deliver a statement, declaration or false affidavit, or to abstain from making a statement, declaration or affidavit, is punished by three years' imprisonment and a fine of €45,000, even where the subornation of perjury was ineffective.
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