November 17, 2015
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Gwenaëlle Callemein, « Poisoning in front of the French criminal court in application of the edict on the poisoners (1682-1789) », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société - notices sans texte intégral, ID : 10670/1.5b9a46...
Poisonning is a violation which appeared lately, though poison has been used as a powerful criminal weapon for a long time. In 1682, a specific regulation distinguished it from a manslaughter and supervised the trade of poisonous substances in a rigorous way. Since then, the poisoning has always been incriminated independantly in the French law. So a lot of question was raised by this new law ; in one hand on the constitution of the breach and on the other hand on its repression by the courts. As poisonning is a crime which is hard to proove, evidence have to be found all the time. Therefore, we have to ask the Criminal Justice to understand this new legislation and these specificities which are particular to poisonning, both in the progress of the criminal procedure and in the penalty applied to the poisoners.