Enacted parts

ARTICLE 422-5
Legal persons may incur criminal liability for acts of terrorisms set out under under the present title, pursuant to 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 penalties referred to under 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.
ARTICLE 422-6
(Inserted by Act no. 2001-1062 of 15 November 2001 Article 33 Official Journal of 16 November 2001) 
Natural and legal persons convicted of act of terrorism shall in addition incur the complementary penalty of
confiscation of all or part of their property, whatever its nature, movable or immovable, severally or jointly owned.
ARTICLE 422-7
(Inserted by Act no. 2001-1062 of 15 November 2001 Article 33 Official Journal of 16 November 2001) 
The product of a financial or property sanction imposed on a person convicted of an act of terrorism is allocated to
the contingency fund for victims of acts of terrorism and other offences.
TITLE III
VIOLATION OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE
Articles 431-1 to 436-5
CHAPTER I
BREACHES OF THE PUBLIC PEACE
Articles 431-1 to 431-21
SECTION I
IMPEDING THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, LABOUR,
ASSOCIATION, ASSEMBLY OR DEMONSTRATION
Articles 431-1 to 431-2
ARTICLE 431-1
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
Updated 12/10/2005 - Page 90/132

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PENAL CODE
Concerted obstruction, with the use of threats, to the exercise of the freedom of expression, labour, association,
assembly or demonstration is punished by one year's imprisonment and a fine of €15,000.
Concerted obstruction to the exercise of one of the freedoms referred to under the previous paragraph with the use
of blows, acts of violence, or acts of destruction or damage within the meaning of the present Code is punished by three
years' imprisonment and a fine of €45,000.
ARTICLE 431-2
Natural persons convicted of any of the offences provided for under article 431-1 also incur the following additional
penalties:
1° forfeiture of civic, civil and family rights pursuant to the conditions set out under article 131-26;
2° prohibition, pursuant to the conditions set out under article 131-27, to hold public office or to undertake the social
or professional activity in the course of which or on the occasion of the performance of which the offence was
committed;
3° prohibition to hold or carry a weapon requiring a licence for a maximum period of five years.
SECTION II