Swiss Criminal Code

¹Any per­son who, in ac­cord­ance with a plan, car­ries out spe­cif­ic tech­nic­al or or­gan­isa­tion­al meas­ures, the nature and ex­tent of which in­dic­ate that the of­fend­er in­tends to com­mit any of the of­fences lis­ted be­low is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing five years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty:

a.

in­ten­tion­al hom­icide (Art. 111);

b.

murder (Art. 112);

c.

ser­i­ous as­sault (Art. 122);

c^bis.² fe­male gen­it­al mu­til­a­tion (Art. 124);

d.

rob­bery (Art. 140);

e.

false im­pris­on­ment and ab­duc­tion (Art. 183);

f.

host­age tak­ing (Art. 185);

f^bis.³ en­forced dis­ap­pear­ance (Art. 185^bis);

g.

ar­son (Art. 221);

h.

gen­o­cide (Art. 264);

i.

crimes against hu­man­ity (Art. 264a);

j. war crimes (Art. 264c-264h).⁴

²If the of­fend­er, of his own vo­li­tion, does not com­plete the pre­par­at­ory act, he is not li­able to any pen­alty.

³It is also an of­fence for any per­son to carry out a pre­par­at­ory act abroad, provided it was in­ten­ded to com­mit the of­fences in Switzer­land. Art­icle 3 para­graph 2 ap­plies.⁵