French Sports Code
In forcePersons guilty of one of the offences defined in article L. 332-3, the first sentence of article L. 332-4 and articles L. 332-5-1, L. 332-8, L. 332-10-1 and L. 332-19 of this Code are also liable to the additional penalty of being banned from entering or being in the vicinity of a venue where a sporting event is taking place, for a period not exceeding five years. Taking into account the family, social and professional obligations of the person sentenced to this penalty, the court specifies the sporting events at which this person is obliged to respond to summonses from any authority or qualified person that the court designates in its decision. In the absence of any mention in the judgement, the person is required to respond to summonses from the police or gendarmerie service nearest to his or her place of residence at sporting events concerning the discipline and one of the teams involved when the offence was committed. This decision may stipulate that the obligation to respond to these summonses applies at the time of certain sporting events, which it designates, taking place on the territory of a foreign State.
This additional penalty is also applicable to persons guilty of one of the offences defined in articles 222-11 to 222-13, 322-1 to 322-4, 322-6, 322-11 and 433-6 of the Penal Code when this offence has been committed in an enclosure where a sporting event is taking place or, outside the enclosure, in direct connection with a sporting event.
This penalty must be imposed on persons guilty of one of the offences defined in the second sentence of article L. 332-4 and articles L. 332-5 to L. 332-7, L. 332-8-1, L. 332-9 and L. 332-10 of this Code. However, the court may, in a specially reasoned decision, decide not to impose this penalty, taking into consideration the circumstances of the offence and the personality of the offender.
