6° it is committed by the ex- spouse or common law partner, if it was committed because of the
relationship between the offender and the victim;
7° it is committed by several persons acting in an organized gang.
Article 381: Whoever, voluntarily, commits battery shall be sentenced:
1° to imprisonment for five to twenty years, when the battery, even without the intention of
causing death, have nevertheless caused it;
2° to imprisonment for five to ten years and a fine of 100,000 to 1,000,000 francs when the
violence has caused mutilation, amputation or deprivation of the use a member of the body,
blindness or loss of an eye or any other permanent disability;
3° to imprisonment for one to five years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs when the
violence resulted in illness or total incapacity to perform personal work for more than ten days;
4° to imprisonment of one month to one year and a fine of 100,000 to 1,000,000 francs when the
violence results in no illness or incapacity for work of the kind mentioned in the preceding
paragraph.
Article 382: Constitutes an assault, the fact of voluntarily exerting on person violence or any
other act which does not cause any injury, but is of nature to harm the victim or to cause for him
a discomfort.
Any person who commits assault shall be punished by imprisonment of fifteen days to six
months and a fine of 100,000 to 1,000,000 francs.
Article 383: When the injuries are inflicted on the father or mother, an adoptive parent, an
ascendant, the spouse or the common law partner of the offender, the penalties shall be:
1° imprisonment for life, in the case provided for by article 381-1°;
2° imprisonment from five to twenty years in the cases provided for by article 381-2°;
3° imprisonment from five to ten years and a fine of 50.000 to 500.000 francs, in the cases
provided for by article 381-3°;
4° imprisonment of one to three years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs in other cases.
Article 384: A pardon granted to the offender by the father or mother, adoptive parents or
ascendants, in the cases provided for in 2°, 3° and 4° of the preceding article, shall constitute
mitigating circumstances.
Article 385: Anyone who causes illness or total incapacity to perform personal work to another
person by voluntarily administering to him or her, in any way whatsoever, a substance which,
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