I don’t know how the French judicial system works but I don’t know if this will succeed.
I am vaguely aware that Napoleonic Code has a concept of chains of responsibility regarding criminal acts as citizens are legally obligated to act responsibly. In contrast, our Roman Law system for criminal matters is almost always "plus or minus". Either one committed criminal act, or one did not-period.
A Navy Shore Patrol related to me that he took basic provisions / conducted welfare checks for a Marine who had been convicted of murder under Mexico's Napoleonic code:
- Marine goes to a brothel in Tijuana's infamous Zona Rosa. Gets into a fight with a Mexican citizen. The other man remains at the brothel. Marine goes to another one next door.
- Bar tender had called police about the fight. Mexican police arrive and are attacked by the other man with a knife. The police respond by killing him (end of story in our Roman law system).
-But.... under Napoleonic code, the Marine was partly responsible for the death of the man perhaps: Responsible citizens don't engage in fights with other people and conduct themselves better in shady places.
- The marine then gets convicted for murder citing that had he and the man not been fighting, the police would not have been called. Had the police not been called, they would not of been attacked. Thus, no need to kill the other man.. Sentence was for three years, but Shore Patrol told me he would be out in two.
They also told me that though the marine had been discharged, the military still provided palatable food and toiletries once a week and also ensured he had a private cell (really a mini suite) in the better part of the prison.