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Section 72: Failing to reveal plot against the State

Criminal Code · CHAPTER I: OFFENCES OF A PUBLIC NATURE

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72. Failing to reveal plot against the State Toutes personnes qui, ayant eu Any person having knowledge of connaissance de complots formés ou any plot formed or of any crime conde crimes projetés contre la sûreté templated against the internal or exintérieure ou extérieure de l’Etat, ternal safety of the State who does n’auront pas fait la déclaration de not reveal such plot or crime, and ces complots ou crimes, et n’auront does not give information to the pas révélé au Gouvernement, ou aux Government or the administrative autorités administratives ou de police authorities or to the police, of the judiciaire, les circonstances qui en circumstances relating to it which seront venues à leur connaissance, may have come to his knowledge, all le tout dans les 24 heures qui auront the information being given within suivi la dite connaissance, seront, the 24 hours following the knowllors même qu’elles seraient recon- edge, shall, for the single fact of nues exemptées de toute complicité, concealment, be punished in the punies, pour le seul fait de non- manner and according to the distincrévélation, de la manière et selon les tions which follow, although it is distinctions qui suivent. proved that he has committed no act of complicity.

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