Article 313-b: Prohibition on providing and publishing data contrary to the law
Disclosure or publication, in whatever form and contrary to the law, of classified and confidential data that endanger life, physical integrity or freedom of the protected persons, according to the legislation in force on the protection of witnesses and justice collaborators, in order to detect these persons, shall be punished by fine or up to two years of imprisonment.
When commission of this criminal offence results in serious consequences on their health the punishment shall be imprisonment from 6 months to three years.
When this offence is committed by one of the persons who are entitled to protect the classified and confidential character of the information, it is punishable with fine or imprisonment for a term of up to three years and, when from the commitment of this offence have come serious consequences to their health, it is punishable with an imprisonment term of two to five years.
When the offence has caused the death as a consequence, it is punishable with imprisonment from three to ten years.
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