origin of a disease or a deformity or the cause of death. ARTICLE 121 : Any clerk, employee, or official , paid or remunerated in any form whatsoever who, either directly, or through a third party, without the knowledge and consent of his/her employer, solicits or approves offers or promises, or solicits or receives donations, gifts, commissions, discounts or bonuses to perform or not perform an act which is part his/her job shall be punished with the same penalties.. Any person who solicits or accepts offers or promises, solicits or receives donations or gifts to obtain for or attempt to obtain decorations, medals, distinctions, awards, places, posts or jobs or any favours whatsoever given by state authority, contracts, companies or any other benefits from contracts concluded with the state authority or an administration placed under the control of the public authority, or generally, a decision favourable for such an authority or administration or abuses as such actual or supposed influence shall be punished with the same penalties. ARTICLE 122: Whosoever to obtain either the completion or performance of an act, one of the advantages or favours provided for in the previous articles, uses assault or threats, promises, offers, donations or fits, or gives in to entreaties aimed at corruption, even if he/she did not take the initiative shall, whether or not the corruption had its intended effect, be punished with the penalties stated in the article 120 of the code against the corrupted person. ARTICLE 123 : In case the corruption or influence peddling results in a criminal act that carries a penalty higher than the one stated in article 120 herein above, this higher penalty shall be applied to the guilty person. The person who corrupts shall never be given back the things he/she gave or their value; these things shall be confiscated. CHAPITRE X I: ABUSE OF AUTHORITY AGAINST INDIVIDUALS SECTION I: HOME INVASION ARTICLE 124: Whoever enters, illegally and using threats or violence, the home of a citizen shall be punished with imprisonment of between eleven days to three months. Should the offender be a civil servant as meant in this code acting outside the cases provided for by the law, the penalty shall be imprisonment of between eleven days to one year. Judges may also order the payment of a fine of between 20, 000 to 120, 000 francs. Violence shall not be necessary if the perpetrator of this violation entered another person's home in order to provoke this person. SECTION Il: INVASIONS OF PRIVACY ARTICLE 125: Whosoever, without an authorisation from the law or a judge, voluntarily invades the privacy of a citizen by listening, recording or broadcasting through any device whatsoever statements made in a private location by someone without his/her content shall be punished with imprisonment of between six months to three years and a fine of between 250,000 to 300,000 francs or only one of these two penalties. ARTICLE 126:The same penalty shall apply to whosoever invades someone's privacy by placing, or broadcasting through any device whatsoever the picture of someone in a private location without his/her consent. When the acts spelled out in the previous sub-paragraph are committed during a meeting in the full view of participants, it shall be assumed that they gave their consent. ARTICLE 127: Whoever deliberately keeps or voluntarily informs or allows the public or a third party to be informed about one of the facts provided for in the same article shall be punished with the penalties provided for in article 125. In the event of publication, legal proceedings shall be launched against the persons enumerated by the law governing the press or press offences pursuant to the conditions laid down in this article, if this offence was committed through the press and against the people in charge of the broadcast or failing this, the heads of the 25

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