Criminal Code (1995, lastly amended 2001) (excerpts)
REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA
PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY
LAW
No. 7895, date 27 January, 1995, amended by Law No. 8204, date 10 April 1997, amended by Law No. 8279, date 15 January 1998, amended by Law No. 8733, date 24 January 2001
CRIMINAL CODE OF THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA
I. GENERAL PART
CHAPTER I
CRIMINAL LAW AND ITS APPLICATION
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Article 6
The applicable law on criminal acts committed by Albanian citizens
Concerning criminal acts committed by Albanian citizens within the territory of the Republic of Albania, the criminal law of the Republic of Albania shall apply.
The criminal law of the Republic of Albania shall also be applicable to the Albanian citizen who commits an offence within the territory of another country, when that offence is concurrently punishable, unless a foreign court has given a final sentence.
In the sense of this article, Albanian citizens shall also be considered those persons who apart from the Albanian citizenship hold another one too.
Article 7
The applicable law on criminal acts committed by foreign citizens
(Letter “d” amended by Law No. 8733, date 24 January 2001, article 2)
The foreign citizen who commits a criminal act within the territory of the Republic of Albania is held responsible on the basis of the criminal law of the Republic of Albania.
The criminal law of the Republic of Albania is also applicable to a foreign citizen who, outside of the Republic of Albania, commits one of the following offences against the interests of the Albanian State or an Albanian citizen:
a) crimes against humanity;
b) crimes against Albanian independence and its constitutional order;
c) terrorist acts;
d) Organization of prostitution; illegal trafficking of human beings, children, and women; production and illegal trafficking of weapons, drugs, other narcotic and psychotropic substances, nuclear substances, pornographic materials and illegal trafficking of art works and objects with a historical, cultural, and archeological value.
e) hijacking airplanes or ships;
f) falsifying the Albanian state seal, Albanian currency, or Albanian bonds or stocks;
g) crimes which affect the life or health of Albanian citizens, to which the law provides for a punishment by imprisonment of five years or any other heavier punishment.
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SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER VII
TERRORIST ACTS
Article 230
Terrorist acts
(Amended by Law No. 8733, date 24 January 2001, article 79)
Committing violent acts against the life, health of people, personal freedom through kidnapping of people or hijacking public transportation, with the intent to seriously disturb public order and instilling fear and uncertainty in the public is punishable by no less than fifteen years of imprisonment or to life imprisonment.
Article 231
Violent acts against property
Committing violent acts against property through stealing, massive damaging or destroying, with the intent of seriously disturbing public order and instilling fear and uncertainty to the public, is punishable by no less than fifteen years of imprisonment.
Article 232
Delivering dangerous substances
Delivery in the air, land or water of substances that constitute a danger to the life and health of people and animals, with the intent of seriously disturbing public order and instilling uncertainty in the public, is punishable by ten to twenty years of imprisonment.
Article 233
Creating armed gangs
Creating armed gangs to oppose public order through violent acts against the life, health, personal freedom of the individual, property, with the intent of instilling fear and uncertainty in the public, is sentenced up to ten years of imprisonment.
Article 234
Producing military weapons
Producing, storing, transporting of military, chemical, biological, nuclear weapons which have a poisonous or explosive base, with the intent of committing acts of terrorism, is punishable by five to fifteen years of imprisonment.
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