2° acts performed in the course of a sporting activity, provided that the offender has complied with the rules of the sport being practiced. Art. 390. Irrespective of the cases provided for in article 97, the perpetrators of the offenses provided for in articles 380 and 381 committed while preventing, during the day, the climbing or breaking of fences, walls or entrances of a house, inhabited place or their annexes, as well as the felony of castration immediately caused by a violent assault to indecency, shall benefit from the exculpatory excuse. Section 2: Omission to provide assistance Article 391: Any person who intentionally refrains from proving assistance to a person in danger, which he could have done without risk to himself or to third parties, either by his personal action or by causing help, shall be punished by imprisonment of three months to five years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs. These penalties shall be doubled if the convicted person had a professional or contractual obligation to assist or help the victim. Section 3: Unintentional homicide and bodily injury Article392: Any person who, through clumsiness, carelessness, inattention, negligence or noncompliance with regulations, unintentionally commits a homicide or is the unintentional cause of it, is punished by imprisonment of three months to three years and a fine of 100,000 to 1,000,000 francs. The penalty shall be one month to one year imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs, if the unintentional act caused a bodily injury which resulted in total personal work incapacity for more than six days. The penalties provided for in the two preceding paragraphs shall be also applicable in the case where the homicide or the injuries were caused or provoked by a fire caused involuntarily. Section 4: Endangering others Article 393: Constitutes endangerment of others any manifest and deliberate violation of a particular obligation of prudence or safety imposed by law or regulation. Any person who endangers others shall be punished by imprisonment for one to three years and a fine of 300,000 to 3,000,000 francs. Section 5: Certain forms of violence against women. Article 394: Constitutes genital mutilation, any offense against is the integrity of a woman’s genital organ by total or partial removal, infibulation, numbing or any other procedure.

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