Enacted parts

ARTICLE 433-2
The direct or indirect request or acceptance of offers, promises, donations, gifts or rewards made to abuse one's
real or supposed influence with a view to obtaining distinctions, employments, contracts or any other favourable decision
from a public authority or administration, is punished by five years' imprisonment and a fine of €75,000
The same penalties apply to yielding to the demands set out under the previous paragraph, or unlawfully proffering,
directly or indirectly any offer, promise, donation, gift or reward so that a person may unlawfully use his real or supposed
influence with a view to obtaining distinctions, employments, contracts or any other favourable decision from a public
authority or administration.
SECTION II
THREATS AND INTIMIDATION AGAINST PERSONS HOLDING PUBLIC
OFFICE
Article 433-3
ARTICLE 433-3
(Act no. 96-647 of 22 July 1996 Article 16 Official Journal 23 July 1996)
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
The threat to commit a felony or a misdemeanour against persons or property made against a person holding
elected public office, a judge or prosecutor, a juror, an advocate, a legal professional officer or a public officer, a
member of the Gendarmerie or national police, customs, the penitentiary administration, or 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, is punished by two years' imprisonment and a fine of €30,000. These provisions also apply to threats made
against the spouse, the ascendants and direct descendants of these persons or against any other person who habitually
resides in their home, because of the duties carried out by these persons .
The threat to commit a felony or a misdemeanour against persons or property made against a person employed by
a public transport network or any other person carrying out a public service mission or against a health professional in
the exercise of his duties, where the status of the victim is apparent or known to the perpetrator, is subject to the same
penalties.
The penalty is increased to five years' imprisonment and to a fine of €75,000 where this is a death threat or a threat
to attack property in a manner involving danger to other persons.
The use of threats, violence or the commission of any other intimidating act to obtain, from a person referred to
under the first or second paragraph or who holds a public electoral mandate, either the performance or the abstention
from performance of any act pertaining to his office, duty or mandate, or facilitated by his office, duty or mandate, or the
misuse of his real or supposed authority with a view to obtaining distinctions, employments, contracts or any other
favourable decision from a public authority or administration, is punished by ten years' imprisonment and a fine of
€150,000.
SECTION III
PURLOINING AND MISAPPROPRIATING PROPERTY FROM A PUBLIC
DEPOSIT
Article 433-4