Règle correspondante
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, Droit de la guerre, Manuel d’instruction, Livre IV: Instruction du chef de section et du commandant de compagnie, Manuel de l’élève, Ministère de la Défense, Forces Armées Nationales, November 2007, p. 49.
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”.
Côte d’Ivoire, Penal Code, 1981, as amended in 1998, Article 473.
