ART.193.- The insult by gestures or by threats or by sending any objects in the same
intention, and aimed a magistrate or a juror in the exercise or on the occasion of the
exercise of its functions, will be punished with one to six months of imprisonment,
and if the contempt took place for
the hearing of a court or a tribunal, he will be punished by a term of imprisonment of
one month to two years.
ART.194.- The contempt is by words, gestures, threats, written or drawings not
made public or even by sending any objects in the same intention, aimed any officer,
agent or depository of the public force or any citizen support of a ministry of public
service, in the exercise or on the occasion of the exercise of its functions, shall be
punished with imprisonment from one to three months and a fine of 15,000 to
45,000 francs, or with only one of these two penalties.
ART.195.- The contempt mentioned in the previous article when it will have been
directed against a commander of the public force, will be punished with a prison
term of one to six months and may be also to a fine of 15,000 to 45,000 francs.
ART.196.- anyone who will publicly by act, words or writings, sought to discredit on
an act or a judicial decision, in the conditions of nature to impair the authority of
justice or its independence, will be punished with one to six months of imprisonment
and of 15 000 to 45 000 francs fine or only one of these two penalties.
The court may also order the application and the publication of its decision in the
conditions it determines at the expense of the condemned, without that its costs
could exceed the maximum fine provided for above.
The foregoing provisions may not, in any circumstances, be applied to comments
purely technical, nor to acts, words or writings aimed at the revision of a conviction.
When the offense has been committed by all means of public dissemination, the
provisions of article 268 of this code will be applicable.
The resistance of bad faith in the execution of final decisions of the courts acting in
civil, commercial, social and criminal as well as the fraudulent diversion of goods in
order to escape the tracks of execution, will be punished by a
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imprisonment of three months to one year and a fine of 1 0,000 to 30,000 francs, or
with only one of these two penalties.
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