Swiss Criminal Code

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

a.

against the ci­vil­ian pop­u­la­tion as such or against in­di­vidu­al ci­vil­ians not tak­ing dir­ect part in hos­til­it­ies;

b.

against per­son­nel, in­stall­a­tions, ma­ter­i­al or vehicles in­volved in a hu­man­it­ari­an as­sist­ance or peace­keep­ing mis­sion in ac­cord­ance with the Charter of the United Na­tions of 26 June 1945²⁹¹, as long as they are en­titled to the pro­tec­tion of in­ter­na­tion­al hu­man­it­ari­an law;

c.

against ci­vil­ian ob­jects, un­defen­ded set­tle­ments or build­ings or de­mil­it­ar­ised zones that are not mil­it­ary ob­ject­ives;

d.

against med­ic­al units, ma­ter­i­al or vehicles us­ing a dis­tinct­ive em­blem un­der in­ter­na­tion­al hu­man­it­ari­an law or whose pro­tec­ted char­ac­ter is re­cog­nis­able even without a dis­tinct­ive em­blem, hos­pit­als and places where the sick and wounded are col­lec­ted;

e.

against cul­tur­al prop­erty or per­sons en­trus­ted with its pro­tec­tion or vehicles for its trans­port, against build­ings ded­ic­ated to re­li­gion, edu­ca­tion, art, sci­ence or char­it­able pur­poses, provided they are pro­tec­ted by in­ter­na­tion­al hu­man­it­ari­an law.

² In es­pe­cially ser­i­ous cases of at­tacks on per­sons, a cus­todi­al sen­tence of life may be im­posed.

³ In less ser­i­ous cases, a cus­todi­al sen­tence of not less than one year may be im­posed.