Title XIV: Recourse for compensation available to certain victims of damage resulting from an offence

If the victim or the victim’s heirs bring a civil action before the criminal court or bring an action against the persons responsible for the damage, they must indicate, at all stages of the proceedings, whether they have referred the matter to the commission set up by Article 706-4 and whether, if so, it has awarded them compensation. Failing this indication, the nullity of the judgment as regards its civil…

Any person who, as the victim of theft, fraud, breach of trust, extortion or the destruction, damage or deterioration of property belonging to him or her, is unable to obtain effective and adequate reparation or compensation for his or her loss on any grounds whatsoever, and as a result finds himself in a serious material or psychological situation, may obtain compensation under the conditions set out in Articles 706-3 (3°…

Article 706-14 is applicable to any person who is the victim of the destruction by fire of a terrestrial motor vehicle belonging to him or her and who can prove at the time of the events that he or she had complied with the provisions of the Highway Code relating to the registration certificate and roadworthiness tests, as well as with the obligations set out in article L. 211-1 of…

Any natural person who has suffered loss as a result of acts, whether intentional or not, committed abroad, which are likely to fall within the jurisdiction of a criminal court having, pursuant to the provisions of this Code, concurrent and specialised territorial jurisdiction extending over the jurisdiction of several judicial courts or over the whole of the territory may, where these acts have the material nature of an offence and…

When a court convicts the perpetrator of an offence referred to in articles 706-3 and 706-14 to pay damages to the civil party, it shall inform the latter of the possibility of submitting a claim for compensation to the Commission d’indemnisation des victimes d’infraction or a claim for recovery assistance to the Fonds de garantie des victimes des actes de terrorisme et d’autres infractions.