identification is made possible by the terms of the speeches, shouting, threats,
written or printed, banners or posters incriminated.
All offensive expressions, terms of contempt or invective which do range the posting
of no fact is an insult.
ART.258.- The libel committed by one of the means set forth in the anchor 247,
toward the courts, tribunals, the army and the public administrations, will be
punished with imprisonment for up to two months to one year and a fine of 15,000
to 150,000 francs or only one of these two penalties.
ART.259.- will be punished with the same punishment , defamation committed by
the same means, by reason of their duties or their quality, owed to one or several
public official, a depositary or agent of a public authority, a citizen support of a
service, or a public mandate, temporary or permanent, a juror, a witness, to reason
of his testimony.
The libel against the same persons concerning the private life, reading of the
following article.
ART.260.- defamation of individuals by one of the means set forth in article 247, shall
be punishable with imprisonment of one to six months and a fine of 15,000 to
75,000 francs, or with only one of these two penalties.
The libel committed by the same means against a group of persons not designated
by the preceding article, but who belong by their origin to a particular race or
religion , shall be punishable by a prison sentence of two months to two years and a
fine of 15,000 to 200,000 francs, when she will have had to aim to excite hatred
among the citizens and inhabitants.
ART.261.- The insult committed by the same means against the body or the persons
designated by the articles 258 and 259, will be punished by a prison term of one to
three months and a fine of 15,000 to 1 00,000 francs or only one of these two
penalties.
THE slur in the same manner against individuals, when it will not have been
preceded by provocation, will be punished with imprisonment for up to two months
to the maximum and a fine of 15,000 to 200,000 francs, or only one of these two
penalties. The maximum term of imprisonment shall be for six months and that of
the fine of 200,000
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