(1) Whoever:
a) violates any tomb or place of burial; or
b) offers indignity to any human corpse or part thereof, whether buried or
not,
shall be punished with imprisonment for from 3 (three) months to 5 (five)
years and with fine of from CFAF 10 000 (ten thousand) to CFAF 100 000
(one hundred thousand).
(2) Nothing in this section shall apply to any dealing with a corpse in the interests of science and in accordance with any regulation in force
(3) Whoever has sexual intercourse on a corpse shall be punished with imprisonment for from 3 (three) months to 5 (five) years
(4) Whoever, by force or moral ascendency, compels any person to have sexual intercourse on a corpse shall be punished with imprisonment for from 5 (five) to 10 (ten) years.
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In force from 12-07-2016
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