Ecarter l’irresponsabilité pénale en cas d’intoxication volontaire

This French bill proposes to exclude criminal irresponsibility when a person has voluntarily become intoxicated. Under current French criminal law, a person whose judgement was impaired by a state of intoxication can sometimes be found not criminally liable. The bill would close that route for people who chose to intoxicate themselves. This summary is based on the title and metadata only, not the full text of the bill. The change would mainly affect people charged with criminal offences committed while voluntarily intoxicated, along with the courts that hear those cases. Victims of such offences may also be affected, since the defence of irresponsibility would be less available to the accused.