Swiss Criminal Code

¹Any per­son who pro­duces, im­ports, stores, mar­kets, pro­motes, ex­hib­its, of­fers, shows, makes ac­cess­ible or makes avail­able sound, film or video re­cord­ings or oth­er products in which acts of ex­treme vi­ol­ence against per­sons or an­im­als are por­trayed, without reas­on­able cul­tur­al or sci­entif­ic grounds there­for, and in do­ing so ser­i­ously of­fends ba­sic hu­man dig­nity is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.

^1bisAny per­son who ac­quires, pro­cures by elec­tron­ic or any oth­er means, or pos­sesses the re­cord­ings or oth­er products men­tioned in para­graph 1 above, provided these por­tray acts of vi­ol­ence against per­sons or an­im­als is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing one year or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty².³

²The art­icles con­cerned are for­feited.

³If the of­fend­er acts for fin­an­cial gain, he is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty. The cus­todi­al sen­tence must be com­bined with a mon­et­ary pen­alty.⁴