A person who threatens another person with death or bodily injury so serious as to induce in him a state of alarm or agitation,
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 295
Making Threats · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
is guilty of making threats, a Class 3 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 1 month, or a fine of 500 – 5,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 500 Nakfas.
Making threats may only be prosecuted upon the preferring of charges by the victim.
The Court may require the offender to enter into a recognizance of good behavior together with a surety or sureties.