Swiss Criminal Code

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Art. 265

1. Felon­ies and mis­de­mean­ours against the state

High treas­on

 

Any per­son who car­ries out an act with the aim, through the use of vi­ol­ence,

of chan­ging the con­sti­tu­tion of the Con­fed­er­a­tion1 or of a can­ton2,

of de­pos­ing the con­sti­tu­tion­ally ap­poin­ted state au­thor­it­ies or ren­der­ing them un­able to ex­er­cise their powers, or

of sever­ing an area of Swiss ter­rit­ory from the Con­fed­er­a­tion or a part of can­ton­al ter­rit­ory from a can­ton,

is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence of not less than one year3.

1 SR 101
2 SR 131.211/.235
3 Term in ac­cord­ance with No II 1 para. 11 of the FA of 13 Dec. 2002, in force since 1 Jan. 2007 (AS 2006 3459 3535; BBl 1999 1979). This amend­ment has been taken in­to ac­count throughout the Second Book.

 
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