Enacted parts

ARTICLE 434-4
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
Where it is done in order to obstruct the discovery of the truth, a penalty of three years' imprisonment and a fine of
€45,000 applies to:
1° modifying the scene of a felony or a misdemeanour either by the alteration, falsification or obliteration of clues or
evidence, or by bringing, removing or suppressing any given article;
2° destroying, purloining, concealing or altering a private or public document or an article liable to facilitate the
discovery of a felony or a misdemeanour, the search for evidence or the conviction of the guilty party. 
Where the acts provided for under the present article are committed by a person who, because of his position, is
called to take part in the discovery of the truth, the penalty is increased to five years' imprisonment and to a fine of
€75,000.
ARTICLE 434-5
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
Any threat or any other intimidation made against any person with a view to persuading the victim of a felony or a
misdemeanour not to file a complaint or to retract is punished by three years' imprisonment and a fine of €45,000.
ARTICLE 434-6
(Act no. 96-647 of 22nd July 1996 Article 7 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)
Providing the perpetrator or accomplice to a felony or an act of terrorism punished by at least ten years'
imprisonment with accommodation, a hiding-place, funds, the means of existence or any other means of evading
searches or arrest, is punished by three years' imprisonment and a fine of €45,000. The penalty is increased to five
years' imprisonment and a fine of €75,000 where the offence is committed habitually.
Exempted from the above provisions are:
1° the relatives in a direct line and their spouses, and the brothers and sisters and their spouses, of the perpetrator
or accomplice to the felony or terrorist offence;
2° the spouse of the perpetrator or accomplice to the felony or act of terrorism, or the person who openly cohabits
with him.
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