A person who intentionally causes a catastrophe by explosion, fire, flood, landslide, collapse of a building, release of poison gas, radioactive material or other harmful or destructive force or substance, or by any other means of causing widespread injury or damage, is guilty of causing a catastrophe, a Class 2 serious offence, punishable with life imprisonment, or, in cases of exceptional gravity, with death, or with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 19 years and not more than 23 years.
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 245
Causing a Catastrophe · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.