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Article 2-5 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

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.

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Article 2-5

Toute association régulièrement déclarée depuis au moins cinq ans à la date des faits qui se propose, par ses statuts, de défendre les intérêts moraux et l’honneur de la Résistance ou des déportés peut exercer les droits reconnus à la partie civile en ce qui concerne soit l’apologie des crimes de guerre ou des crimes ou délits de collaboration avec l’ennemi, soit les destructions ou dégradations de monuments ou les violations de sépultures, soit les délits de diffamation ou injures, qui ont causé un préjudice direct ou indirect à la mission qu’elle remplit.

Toute fondation reconnue d’utilité publique peut exercer les droits reconnus à la partie civile dans les mêmes conditions et sous les mêmes réserves que l’association mentionnée au présent article.

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