Enacted parts

ARTICLE 221-5
Making an attack against the life of another person by the use or administration of substances liable to cause death
constitutes poisoning.
Poisoning is punished by thirty years' criminal imprisonment.
It is punished by criminal imprisonment for life where it is committed in any of the circumstances provided for by
articles 221-2, 221-3 and 221-4.
The first two paragraphs of article 132-23 governing the safety period apply to the offence under the present article.
ARTICLE 221-5-1
(Act no. 2004-204 of 9 March 2004 article 6 II Official Journal of 10 March 2004)
Making another person offers or promises, or offering him gifts, presents or benefits of any kind to induce him to
commit an assassination or a poisoning is punished, where this felony is neither committed nor attempted, by ten years'
imprisonment and by a fine of €150 000.
Article 221-5-2
(Inserted by Act no. 2004-204 of 9 March 2004 article 6 II Official Journal of 10 March 2004) 
Legal persons may incur criminal liability, pursuant to the conditions set out under article 121-2, for the offences
defined in the present section:
The penalties applicable to legal persons are:
1° a fine, pursuant to the conditions set out under article 131-38;
2° the penalties set out under article 131-39.
The prohibition determined under 2° of article 131-39 applies to the activity in the exercise of which or on the
occasion of the exercise of which the offence was committed.
Article 221-5-3
(Inserted by Act no. 2004-204 of 9 March 2004 article 12 IV Official Journal of 10 March 2004) 
Any person who has attempted to commit the felonies of assassination or poisoning is exempted from punishment
if, by alerting the legal or administrative authorities, he has prevented the death of the victim and, where relevant, has
identified the other perpetrators or accomplices involved in the offence.
The prison sentence incurred by the perpetrator or the accomplice to a poisoning is reduced to twenty years'
imprisonment if, by alerting the legal or administrative authorities, he has prevented the victim from dying and, where
relevant, has identified the other perpetrators of or accomplices to the offence.
Updated 12/10/2005 - Page 30/132

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PENAL CODE
SECTION II
INVOLUNTARY OFFENCES AGAINST LIFE
Articles 221-6 to
221-6-1