Côte d’Ivoire
Practice Relating to Rule 61. Improper Use of Other Internationally Recognized Emblems
Côte d’Ivoire’s Teaching Manual (2007) provides in Book IV (Instruction of heads of division and company commanders):
It is prohibited:
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b. to misuse deliberately other internationally recognized protective emblems, signs or signals, including … the protective emblem of cultural property.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Penal Code (1981), as amended in 1998, punishes “anyone who, in an area of military operations, uses, in violation of the laws and customs of war, the distinctive insignia and emblems, defined by international conventions, to ensure respect for protected persons, objects and places”.