'Extensive destruction of property - IAC' in document 'Norway: Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Chapter 16. Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes

Section 104. War crimes against property and civil rights

Any person is liable to punishment for a war crime who in connection with an armed conflict

(b) destroys, seizes or confiscates property on a large scale, unless this is strictly necessary for the purpose of waging war/imperatively demanded by the necessities of war*, or

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention:
(iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly