Any association that has been duly registered for at least five years on the date of the events and that proposes, through its articles of association, to defend the moral interests and honour of the Resistance or the deportees may exercise the rights recognised as a civil party with regard to either the glorification of war crimes or the crimes or offences of collaboration with the enemy, or the destruction or degradation of monuments or the violation of graves, or the offences of defamation or insult, which have caused direct or indirect harm to the mission that it fulfils.
Any foundation recognised as being in the public interest may exercise the rights recognised to a civil party under the same conditions and subject to the same reservations as the association mentioned in this article.