8° by several people acting as an organised gang.
The first two paragraphs of article 132-23 governing the safety period are applicable to the offences set out under
the present article. Nevertheless, where the victim is a minor of fifteen years of age and the murder is preceded by or
accompanied by rape, torture or acts of barbarity, the Cour d'assises may by a special decision either increase the
safety period to thirty years, or, where it orders life imprisonment, decide that none of the measures enumerated under
article 132-23 shall be granted to the convicted person; where the penalty is commuted, and unless the decree of
pardon otherwise provides, the safety period is then equal to the length of the sentence resulting from the pardon.