Enacted parts

ARTICLE 311-15
Any alien convicted of any of the offences referred to under articles 311-6 to 311-10 may be banished from French
territory either permanently or for a maximum period of ten years, pursuant to the conditions set out under article
131-30.
ARTICLE 311-16
Legal persons may incur criminal liability for the offences defined by the present chapter in accordance with the
conditions set out under article 121-2.
The penalties incurred by legal persons are:
1° a fine, pursuant to the conditions set out under article 131-38;
2° the penalty referred to under 2° of article 131-39, either permanently or temporarily in the cases provided for
under articles 311-6 to 311-10, or for a maximum period of five years in the cases set out under articles 311-3 to 311-5;
3° the penalty referred to in 8° of article 131-39.
The prohibition referred to under 2° of article 131-39 applies to the activity in the course of which or on the occasion
of the performance of which the offence was committed.
CHAPTER II
EXTORTION
Articles 312-1 to 312-15
SECTION I
EXTORTION
Articles 312-1 to 312-9
ARTICLE 312-1
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002) 
Extortion is the act of obtaining by violence, by the threat of violence or constraint either a signature, a commitment
or a renunciation, or the revelation of a secret, or the handing over of funds, securities or of any asset.
Extortion is punished by seven years' imprisonment and a fine of €100,000.
ARTICLE 312-2
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002) 
Extortion is punished by ten years' imprisonment and a fine of €150,000:
1° when it is preceded, accompanied or followed by acts of violence upon other persons and which have caused a
total incapacity to work for eight days or less;
2° when it is committed to the prejudice of a person whose particular vulnerability, due to age, sickness, infirmity, a
physical of psychological disability or to pregnancy, is apparent or known to the perpetrator;
3° when it is committed because of the victim's membership or non-membership, true or supposed, of a given ethnic
group, nation, race or religion, or his true or supposed sexual orientation.