Any association, duly declared for at least five years on the date of the events and registered with the National Office for Veterans and Victims of War under conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat, which proposes by its articles of association to defend the moral interests and honour of veterans and victims of war and those who have died for France may exercise the rights recognised as a civil party with regard to the defacement or destruction of monuments or the violation of graves, which have caused direct or indirect harm to the mission it fulfils.
Any foundation recognised as being in the public interest may exercise the rights recognised as a civil party under the same conditions and subject to the same reservations as the association mentioned in this article.
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