Enacted parts

ARTICLE 434-12
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
A person who, having publicly declared that he knows the perpetrators of felony or a misdemeanour, refuses to
reply to questions put to him in this respect by a judge is punished by one year's imprisonment and a fine of €15,000.
ARTICLE 434-13
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
False testimony made under oath before any court of law or before a judicial police officer acting in the exercise of a
rogatory commission is punished by five years' imprisonment and a fine of €75,000.
However, the false witness is exempt from penalty where he retracts his testimony spontaneously before the
decision terminating the procedure has been made by the judicial investigating authority or the court of trial.
ARTICLE 434-14
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
False testimony is punished by seven years' imprisonment and a fine of €100,000:
1° where it is procured by the handing over of a gift or a reward;
2° where the person against whom or in favour of whom the false testimony was committed is liable to a penalty
applicable to a felony.
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.