Those who knowingly help or assist the perpetrator or perpetrators of the act in the deeds that would have prepared or facilitated or in those that they would have completed, without prejudice to the sentence that will specially be spelt out by this code against the perpetrators of plots or attacks against State security, even in a case where the felony that was the sole aim of the conspirators or provocateurs would not have been committed; Those who, intentionally, destroy or attempt to destroy evidence of the action, or who knowingly, through any means whatsoever, helped the perpetrators or accomplices to the felony or misdemeanour escape from justice; Those who, unlawfully receive all or part of things removed, misappropriated or obtained through a felony or misdemeanour; The conspirators shall be subject to the same penalties as the perpetrators of the felony or misdemeanour they are accomplices in; The provisions in paragraph 5 of this article shall not apply to the direct lineal ascendants and descendants of the perpetrators or accomplices to the action or to their brothers, sisters, spouses, guardians and wards. Passive Complicity ARTICLE 25: Accomplices to a felony or misdemeanour shall also refer to those who, without any risk for them or their kin, who took part, did not intervene to prevent its perpetration or who, upon learning of it, did not report the perpetrators or accomplices of this action. Age of Criminal Responsibility ARTICLE 26: The age of criminal responsibility shall be 18. Civil Responsibility ARTICLE 27: To assess civil liability, courts and tribunals shall comply with the provisions of the general rules on obligations. Absence of Criminal Responsibility: ARTICLE 28: No felony or misdemeanour shall be found to exist: 1° When the accused was suffering from dementia at the time of the act or acted in self defence for his/herself or for another; 2° When he/she has been compelled by irresistible force majeure; 3° When he/she acted pursuant to a legal order or an order from a legitimate authority. BOOK III: FELONIES, MISDEMEANOURS AND THEIR PUNISHMENT PART 1 CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY CHAPTER I: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ARTICLE 29: A crime against humanity shall refer to one of the acts herein after , committed as part of a generalised or systematic attack launched against a civilian population and with knowledge of the attack : a) Murder ; b) Extermination c) Enslavement d) Deportation or forced transfer of residents; e) Imprisonment or any other form of serious loss of physical liberty in violation of key provisions of international law ; f) Torture ; g) rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilisation and any other form of sexual violence of comparative seriousness; Persecution of any group or identifiable community on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious or sexist grounds as meant in paragraph c, or on other criteria universally recognized as unacceptable under international law, 6