Any candidate who participates in fraud or knowingly profits from it shall be punished by the
same penalties.
Article 300: Shall be punished by an imprisonment of one month to two years and a fine from
50.000 to 500.000 francs, whoever voluntarily destroyed, defaced, degraded or moved without
authorization:
1° monuments, statutes or other objects intended for public use or decoration, or belonging to
public collections;
2° signals, boundary markers or landmarks used for the execution of geodetic or cadastral works;
Article 301: In all the cases provided for in this section, the deprivation of rights and the
prohibition to appear in certain places referred to in articles 68 and 80 may be ordered.
Section 8: Guilty abstentions
Article 302: Any person who, by immediate action, can prevent, without risk to himself or to
third parties, either an act qualified as a felony or an misdemeanor against the physical integrity
of the person, voluntarily abstains from doing so, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term
of three months to five years and a fine of 300,000 to 3,000,000 francs, or by one of these two
penalties only.
Article 303: Shall be punished by imprisonment from one month to three years, anyone who,
having knowledge of a felony or misdemeanor already attempted or committed, did not, while it
was still possible to prevent or limit its consequences or when it could be thought that the
offenders or one of them would commit new felonies or misdemeanors that could be prevented
by a denunciation, immediately warn the administrative or judicial authorities.
These provisions shall not apply to the spouse, parent or relative of the offender up to and
including the fourth degree, or to his or her partner or any person who is not related to him or
her.
Article 304: Any person who, knowing the evidence about the innocence of a person in
preventive detention or on trial for a felony or misdemeanor, voluntarily refrains from
immediately giving testimony to the judicial or police authorities shall be subject to the penalties
provided for in the preceding article.
However, no penalty shall be pronounced against the person who gives his testimony late but
spontaneously.
The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall not apply to the spouses, parents or relatives, up
to and including the fourth degree, of the offender or accomplices of the felony or misdemeanor,
their common-law partner or any person who is not related to them.
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