Title 1 › Chapter 1 (6)
Section 103 of the Penal Code
— Other Felonies Punishable with Death
Shall, if a citizen, be guilty of treason and, if a foreigner, be guilty of
espionage, and shall in either case be punished with death whoever:
a) instigates a foreign power to undertake hostilities against the Republic;
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Section 105 of the Penal Code
— Prejudice Punishable with Ten Years
Shall be punished with imprisonment for from 1 (one) to 10 (ten) years
or with fine of from CFAF 100 000 (one hundred thousand) to CFAF
10 000 000 (ten million), or with both such imprisonment and fine whoever in
time of
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Section 106 of the Penal Code
— Prejudice Punishable with Five Years
Shall be punished with imprisonment for from 1 (one) to 5 (five) years or
with fine of from CFAF 50 000 (fifty thousand) to CFAF 5 000 000 (five
million), or with both such imprisonment and fine whoever in time of peace:
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Section 109 of the Penal Code
— Defence Secret
For the purposes of this Code a defence secret shall mean any
information of whatever kind liable to assist hostile undertakings against the
Republic and not already made public.
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Section 107 of the Penal Code
— Failure to Report
Any citizen who in time of peace fails to inform the defence,
administrative or legal authorities, so soon as he comes to know of it, of any
activity liable to injure the defence of the nation shall be punished as under
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Section 108 of the Penal Code
— Wartime
(1) Any citizen or resident who in time of war and without permission
from the proper authority
a) carries on any correspondent or relations with the subjects or agents of
the enemy; or
b) concludes, directly or indirect
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Title 3 › Chapter 2 (2)
Section 84 of the Penal Code
— Lawful Defence
(1) No criminal responsibility shall arise from an act dictated by the
immediate necessity of defence of the person acting or of any other person,
or of any right of himself or of any other, against an unlawful infringem
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Section 86 of the Penal Code
— State of Necessity
No criminal responsibility shall arise from an infringement of a right of
property, not justified as lawful defence under Section 84, but inflicted in order
to protect the person acting or any other person, or his or ano
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Title 1 › Chapter 4 (2)
Section 180 of the Penal Code
— Maintenance
(1) Whoever lets pass two months without paying in full any maintenance which he has been ordered by a Court to pay to his spouse, ascendant or descendant, shall be punished with imprisonment for from 1 (one) month to 1
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Section 194 of the Penal Code
— Accessory after the Fact by Shelter
(1) An accessory after the fact to felony or misdemeanour by shelter of the offender, whether convicted or not, shall be punished with imprisonment for from 2 (two) months to 2 (two) years.
(2) Where the principal offenc
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