Gherbal National Gazette

Decision No. 143

Suppression of pillage and looting during wartime

Type
Decision
Number
143
Date of the text
11/06/1940
Official Gazette
published in 1940
Status today
In force as of 27/08/2026
Articles
4

What it provides

This decree sets the death penalty in wartime for looting and plunder offences under the penal code, and for theft from homes or buildings vacated because of the war, and regulates referral of suspects to courts with judgments not subject to appeal or cassation.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1940. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.

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