, public or private employment or other benefits influences or attempts to influence the voting choice of one or
several voters, either directly, or through a third party, anybody, using the same means, chooses or attempts to
chose one or several voters to abstain, shall be punished with imprisonment of between one to five years and a fine
of between 100,000 to 1,000,000 francs.
Those guilty of the above offence may also lose their civic rights and any position or employment with the
State for a period of at least two years.
CHAPTER V: SERIOUS DISRUPTION OF PUBLIC DISORDER
ARTICLE 63: The obstruction of public roads through unlawful assembly, barricades, lighting or maintaining fires
with the aim of hindering or preventing the free movement of people or causing panic among residents, shall be
punished with imprisonment of between six months to three years and a fine of between 20,000 to 200,000 francs,
or only one of these two penalties.
If the offences provided for in the previous sub paragraph were committed through an armed unlawful
assembly, as part of a group or a gang with the use of overt force, the maximum imprisonment sentence may be
increased to five years and a fine of 400,000 francs.
CHAPTER VI: OFFENCES AGAINST LIBERTY
ARTICLE 64: Any civil servant, agent or official of the administration, who requests or orders, or directs as such, law enforcement or
its use against the execution of an ordinance, a warrant, or any other order from the legitimate authority, shall be punished with
imprisonment of between five to ten years. If this request or order were followed, the maximum sentence shall be applied.
The sentences stated shall not apply to civil servants or officials who act as ordered by their superiors only
when this order is given by these superiors for the purposes in their competence and for which they owe obedience
to superiors; in this instance, the penalties stated herein above shall apply only to superiors, who are the first to
give this order.
If following the said orders or requests, there are other crimes punishable with harder sentences than
those spelt out in this article, these harder sentences shall be applied to civil servants, agents and officials guilty
of having given the said order or made the said requests.
ARTICLE 65: When a civil servant orders or performs an act that is arbitrary or infringes either on individual liberty,
the civic rights of one or several citizens, or the Constitution, he/she shall loss his/her civic rights.
Should he/she however justify such action by saying that he/she acted as ordered by his/her superiors for
reasons within the jurisdiction of these superiors, for which they owe obedience to superiors, he/she shall be
exempt from the sentence, which, in this instance, shall apply only to the superiors who gave the order.
ARTICLE 66: If the acts or one of the acts stated in articles 64 and 65 were ordered, or committed by a
minister, who additionally refuses or neglects to make reparation for these acts, the said minister shall be
punished with imprisonment of between six months to five years or a fine of between 25,000 to 180,000 francs.
ARTICLE 67: Ministers who claim, upon being informed that they ordered or authorised an act contrary to the
Constitution, that their signature was forged, shall have to, by ending this end, to report the person whom they
consider to be the perpetrator of the forgery; otherwise they shall be prosecuted individually and be punishable with
the sentences provided for in the previous article.
ARTICLE 68: The compensation that could be ordered for the attacks stated in article 65 herein above shall be
claimed, either based on the criminal prosecution or through a civil proceeding and be settled, with regards to
persons, circumstances and the prejudice suffered, without the said compensation, under any circumstance, and
irrespective of the aggrieved individual, being less than 5000 francs for each day of illegal and arbitrary detention as
well as for every person.
ARTICLE 69: Should the arbitrary act, which violates the Constitution have been committed on the basis of a
forgery of the signature of a
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