works, stations, stores, equipment, ammunition, ships, buildings, aircraft or train belonging to
Côte d’Ivoire or assigned to its defense;
4° with a view to undermining national defense, destroys or deteriorates a ship, aircraft or train,
equipment, supply, construction or installation of any kind, or who, for the same purpose, makes
defects in them, either before or after their completion, that are likely to damage them, prevent
them from performing normally or cause an accident.
Article 146: Shall be guilty of treason and punished by life imprisonment or military detention
for life, any Ivorian, any soldier in the service of Côte d’Ivoire, who, in time of war:
1° incites soldiers to serve a foreign power or aid them to do so ;
2° enrolls soldiers for a foreign power;
3° serves as intelligence for a foreign power or its agent for the realization of the foreign
power’s plotting against Côte d’Ivoire;
4° hinders the flow of military equipment or resources;
5° deliberately engages in an undertaking to demoralize the Armed Forces or the nation in view
of jeopardizing the national defense.
Article 147: Any Ivorian, who, with a view to supporting a foreign power, obtains, hands over,
destroys or allows to be destroyed in any form and by any means whatsoever, intelligence
information, objects, documents or processes that must be kept secret in the interest of national
defense, shall be guilty of treason and is punished by life imprisonment.
Article 148: Any foreigner or stateless person who commits any of the acts provided for in
Articles 145-2, 3 and 4, 146 and 147 shall be guilty of espionage and shall be punished by life
imprisonment.
The incitement to commit or the offer to commit one of the crimes referred to in this section is
punished as the crime itself.
Section 2: Offenses against national defense
Article 149: Anyone who gathers, with the intention of delivering to a foreign power,
intelligence information, objects or processes whose gathering and use are likely to undermine
national defense, shall be punished by life imprisonment.
Article 150: Is punished by imprisonment for five to ten years, any custodian, any depositary by
function or position, of intelligence information, objects, documents or processes that must be
kept secret in the interest of national defense or whose knowledge may lead to the discovery of a
secret of national defense who, without intent of treason or espionage:
1 ° destroys it, conceals it, allows it to be destroyed or concealed;
2 ° brings it or allows it to be brought to the attention of a person whose not entitled to know it or
the public.
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