CHAPTER 3: OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC SECURITY Section 1: Armed gangs Article 174: Any person who, with a view to disturbing the State by any of the crimes provided for in Article 162, or by invading, looting or dividing up public or private property, or by attacking or resisting the public forces acting against the perpetrators of these felonies, heads armed gangs or exercises any function or command in them, shall be punished with life imprisonment. The same penalty applies to the person who leads the association, incites or causes to be incited, organizes or causes to be organized gangs or, knowingly and willfully, provides or procures them with subsidies, weapons, ammunition and tools of the offence or sends them supplies or who, in any other way, practices intelligences with the leaders or commanders of the gangs. Article 175: Individuals, who are part of the gangs, without exercising any command or duty, are punished with imprisonment of five to twenty years. Section 2: Participation in an insurrection movement Article 176: An insurrection movement is any collective violence likely to endanger the institutions of the Republic or to undermine the integrity of the national territory. Any person who participates in an insurrection movement is punished by imprisonment of five to twenty years for: 1° making or helping to make barricades, entrenchments or any other work whose purpose is to hinder or stop the operations of the public force ; 2° preventing, with the use of violence or threats, the convening or meeting of the police force, by provoking or facilitating the gathering of insurgents either by the giving orders or making proclamations, or by carrying flags or other rallying signs, or by any other means of appeal to gathering; 3° invading or occupying buildings, stations and other public facilities or houses whether inhabited or not in order to attack or resist the public force. The penalty is the same for the inhabitants of the premises who, without coercion and knowing the purpose of the insurgents, give them access to the said premises. Article 177: Shall be is punished by imprisonment of five to twenty years, anyone who, in an insurrection movement: 1° seizes arms, ammunition or materials of any kind either by violence or threats, or by looting stores or offices, shops or other facilities, or by disarming agents of the public force;