1° either by speeches made in public places or meetings;
2° or by the sale, the setting on sale or the offer; even not public or by the exposure, the posting
or the distribution on the public way or in the public places, or by the distribution at home, the
handing-over under band or closed envelope, of books, writings, printed materials,
advertisements, posters, drawings, images, emblems;
3° or by the advertising of medical practices, whether or not they are licensed.
Article 429: Shall be punished by the penalties provided for in the preceding article, any person
who sells, offers for sale, causes to be sold, distributes or causes to be distributed in any manner
whatsoever, medicines, substances, tools or objects whatsoever, knowing that they were intended
to commit the offense of abortion, even if this abortion would not be materialized or attempted or
that the said objects would in fact be unsuitable to cause it.
Section 4: Abduction of minors
Article 430: Anyone who, by fraud or violence, abducts in any form minors from the places
where they were placed by those to whose authority or direction they were subject shall be
punished by imprisonment of five to ten years and a fine of 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs.
If the minor thus abducted is a minor of fifteen years of age, the maximum penalty shall be
pronounced.
The penalty shall be imprisonment for five to twenty years if the minor has been found alive,
before the decision of conviction has been made.
The penalty shall be life imprisonment:
1° if the offender has been paid or has had the purpose of being paid a ransom by the persons
under whose authority the minor was placed;
2° if the abduction is followed by the death of the minor, or if it results in a disability of more
than 30%.
Attempting to commit the offenses provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article shall be
punishable.
Article 431: Anyone who, without fraud or violence, abducts or attempts to abduct a minor shall
be punished by imprisonment of one to five years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs.
Article 432: When the custody of a minor has been decided by a provisional or final court
decision, the father, mother or any other person who does not represent the minor to those who
have the right to claim him or her or who, even without fraud or violence, abducts or
misappropriates him or her from the hands of those to whom his or her custody has been
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