[Contexti]

il is a pronoun[0] in French.

I haven't learned French since high school, but here's how I would translate the examples:

il la viola "He raped her"

il viola la loi "He broke the law"

[0](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/il#French)

[afiori]

oh, I did not know, but I studied about 6 hours of French in my life, so it is not surprising.