Any association recognised as being in the public interest, which has been duly registered for at least five years at the date of the events and which proposes by its articles of association to defend and assist the individual or to defend individual and collective rights and freedoms, may, in respect of acts committed by any natural or legal person as part of a movement or organisation whose purpose or effect is to create, maintain or exploit psychological or physical subjection, exercise the rights conferred on a civil party in respect of offences against the human species, wilful or involuntary attacks on the life or physical or psychological integrity of the person, endangerment of the person, infringement of personal freedoms, infringement of personal dignity, infringement of personality, endangerment of minors or attacks on property provided for in the articles 214-1 to 214-4, 221-1 à 221-6, 222-1 à 222-40, 223-1 à 223-15, 223-15-2, 224-1 à 224-4, 225-5 à 225-15, 225-17, 226-1 à 226-23, 227-1 à 227-27, 311-1 à 311-13, 312-1 à 312-12, 313-1 à 313-3, 314-1 à 314-3, 324-1 to 324-6 and 511-1-2 of the Criminal Code, the offences of illegally practising medicine or pharmacy provided for by the articles L. 4161-5 and L. 4223-1 of the Public Health Code, and the offences of misleading advertising, fraud or falsification provided for in articles L. 121-6 and L. 213-1 à L. 213-4 of the Consumer Code.
Any foundation recognised as being in the public interest may exercise the rights granted to a civil party under the same conditions and subject to the same reservations as the association mentioned in this article.