France’s LOAC Manual (2001) provides: “Some evacuations can be imposed for reasons of security of the population or imperative military necessity. These evacuations must always be temporary and undertaken respecting the population’s interests.” 

France’s Penal Code (1992), as amended in 2010, states in its section on war crimes related to non-international armed conflict: “Unless the security of the civilians or imperative military reasons so demand, ordering the displacement of the civilian population for reasons related to the conflict is punishable by life imprisonment.”