2° carries arms or ammunition, or wears uniform or costume or other civil or military insignia.
If the bearer of arms or ammunition is wearing a uniform, costume or other civil or military
insignia, he shall be punished by life imprisonment.
Article 178: Those who lead or organize an insurrection movement or who knowingly and
voluntarily provide or procure arms, ammunition and tools of offence to the insurgents, or send
supplies or who, in any way whatsoever, engage in intelligence with the leaders of the
movement, shall be punished by life imprisonment.
Section 3: Offenses against public order
Article 179: Shall be punished by imprisonment of three to five years, whoever, apart from the
cases mentioned in articles 137 to 175:
1° is guilty of acts or maneuvers likely to jeopardize public security or to cause serious
disturbances to public order, to discredit institutions and their functioning or to provoke and
incite citizens or inhabitants to disobey laws and orders of the legitimate Authority;
2° uses, in any of the circumstances provided for in article 184, the means provided for in said
article when such means are seditious or constitute a threat to public order.
Article 180: Anyone who accepts, asks for or accepts gifts, presents, subsidies, offers, promises
or any other means, with a view to engaging in propaganda likely to compromise public security
or to cause disturbances, to discredit institutions or their functioning, or to incite citizens or
inhabitants to disobey the laws, shall be punished by imprisonment for one to five years and a
fine of twice the value of the promises accepted or asked for or of the things accepted or asked
for, without the said fine being less than 500.000 francs.
Article 181: Anyone who receives propaganda funds from abroad, directly or indirectly, in any
form or for any purpose, and engages in political propaganda, shall be punished by imprisonment
for one to five years and a fine of twice the value of the funds received, but not less than 500,000
francs.
Article 182: Anyone who distributes, puts on sale, exhibits to the public or holds for sale,
distribution or exhibition, for propaganda purposes, leaflets or brochures of foreign origin or
inspiration, of a nature detrimental to the national interest, shall be punished by imprisonment for
a term of six months to five years and a fine of 300,000 to 3,000,000 francs.
Article 183: Any person who publishes, disseminates, discloses or reproduces by any means
whatsoever, false news, fabricated or falsified documents or documents falsely attributed to third
parties, when this results or could result in disobedience to the law, an assault on the morale of
the population or discrediting institutions or their functioning, shall be punished by
imprisonment of one to three years and a fine of 500,000 to 5,000,000 francs.
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