Book Two : Specific Provisions

Title Twelveter : War Crimes

Art. 264c

1 The penalty is a custodial sentence of not less than five years for any person who commits a serious violation of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 in connection with an international armed conflict by carrying out any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the Conventions :

d. extensive destruction and appropriation of property not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly ;

Book Two : Specific Provisions

Title Twelveter : War Crimes

Art. 264g

1 The penalty is a custodial sentence of not less than three years for any person who, in connection with an armed conflict :

c. as a method of warfare, pillages or otherwise unlawfully appropriates property or destroys or seizes enemy property in a way not imperatively demanded by the necessities of war, deprives civilians of objects indispensable to their survival or impedes relief supplies ;

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