ISLAMIC FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF THE COMOROS --------------------Federal Assembly Act No.- 082 P/A. F - Act 95-012/AF on the penal Code ( Crimes and offenses ) The Federal Assembly has deliberated and adopted in its meetings of May 15, 1981 and May 8, 1982 and 18/09/95. THE LAW WHOSE CONTENT IS AS FOLLOWS: PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS FIRST ARTICLE: - the offense that the laws punish sentences of police is a contravention. The offense that the laws punish of correctional penalties is an offense. The offense that the laws punish an afflictive penalty and infamous is a crime. ART. 2 . - Any attempt to commit a crime which has been manifested by a commencement of execution, if it has not been suspended or if it failed to achieve its effect only by circumstances independent of the will of its author, is regarded as the crime itself. ART. 3. - The attempted offense is regarded as the offense itself that in the cases determined by a special provision of the law. ART. 4. - Null contravention, no crime, no one crime may not be punished by penalties which were not foreseen by the law before they were committed. ART. 5 . - In case of conviction of several crimes or offenses , the severest punishment is only pronounced. When a main sentence is the subject of a forgiveness, it has to be taken into account, for the application of the confusion of sentences, the sentence resulting from the switching and non-of the original sentence. First Book of sentences in criminal matters and of corrections and their ART effects. 6 . - The penalties in criminal matters are or afflictive and demeaning, or only demeaning. 1