Paragraph 4 - abuse of authority
first class
of abuse of authority against the individuals
ART.163.- Any administrative or judicial officer, any officer of justice or of police, any
commander or agent of the public force, which, acting in its so-called quality, se will
be introduced in the home of a citizen against the will of the latter, outside the cases
provided by law, and without the formalities prescribed by it, will be punished by a
prison term of six months to two years and a fine of 15,000 to 150,000 francs,
without prejudice to the application of the second paragraph of article 105.
Any individual who will be introduced to the aid of maneuvers, threats, assault,
violence or constraints in the home of a citizen, will be punished by imprisonment of
up to two months to one year and a fine of 15,000 to 100,000 francs.
ART.164.- Any judge of a court, which, under any pretext whatsoever, even of silence
or of the obscurity of the law, will be denied render justice that it must to the
parties, after having required and which 1 will have persevered in its denial after
warning or injunction of his superiors, will be continued and will be punished with a
fine of 15,000 to 150,000 francs and the ban on the exercise of public functions for
at least five years and twenty years at the most,
ART.165.- When a public official or officer, an administrator or designated agent of
the government or the police, an executor of the mandates of justice or of
judgments, a commander-in-chief or a sub-order of the public force, will, without
Legitimate reason, worn or
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made use of violence against persons, in the exercise or on the occasion of the
exercise of its functions, it will be punished according to the nature and severity of
these violence and by raising the penalty following the rule laid down by article 177
below.
ART.166.- Any deletion, any opening of letters assigned to the post, committed or
facilitated by an officer or agent of the government or of the administration of the
post office, will be punished with a fine of 15,000 to 150,000 francs and
imprisonment for a term of three months to five years. The guilty, will be of more
banned from any function or public employment for at least five years and not more
than ten years.
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