Enacted parts

ARTICLE 431-10
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
Participating in a demonstration or public meeting while carrying a weapon is punished by three years' imprisonment
and a fine of €45,000.
ARTICLE 431-11
Natural persons convicted of any of the offences provided for under article 431-10 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 to hold or carry a weapon requiring a licence for a maximum period of five years;
3° confiscation of one or more weapons which belonged to the convicted person or which are freely available to
him;
4° area banishment pursuant to the conditions under article 131-31.
ARTICLE 431-12
Any alien convicted of any of the offences referred to under article 431-10 may be banished from French territory
either permanently or for a maximum period of ten years in accordance with the conditions laid down under article
131-30.
SECTION IV
COMBAT GROUPS AND DISBANDED MOVEMENTS
Articles 431-13 to
431-21
ARTICLE 431-13
Unless otherwise provided by the law, a combat group is any group of persons holding or having access to
weapons, which has an organised hierarchy and is liable to breach the public peace.
ARTICLE 431-14
(Ordinance no. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 in force 1 January
2002)
Participating in a combat group is punished by three years' imprisonment and a fine of €45,000.
ARTICLE 431-15
Participating in the maintenance or re-establishment, whether secret or open, of an association or group disbanded
by the Act of 10 January 1936 on Combat Groups and Private Militias is punished by three years' imprisonment and a
fine of €45,000.
Where the association or the re-established or maintained group is a combat group within the meaning of article
431-14, the penalty is increased to five years' imprisonment and a fine of €75,000.