Civil disorder

As resistance to state violence a violent resistance or assault law enforcement officers of the State is called. This can also be made in the exercise of passive violence, such as sit-ins and similar actions of nonviolent resistance (see also violence). As law enforcement officers apply in addition to police officers, customs officers and other officials also hunting, forestry and fishery warden or appointed and private overseers of the state ( § 11 StGB).

Germany

In Germany the resistance against the state includes the offenses Public provocation to commit criminal offenses ( § 111 StGB), resisting law enforcement officers ( § 113 StGB), resistance to those law enforcement officers are equivalent to ( § 114 StGB), liberation of prisoners ( § 120 StGB) and Gefangenenmeuterei ( § 121 StGB). Likelihood of confusion with the resistance right under Article 20, paragraph 4 of the Constitution inasmuch as all Germans have the right to resist anyone who takes the order, Article 20 of the Basic Law stipulates to eliminate and state- friendly interpretation in this case is concerned, that the state itself has a right to resist.

Austria

In Austria every hindrance of an authority or an official of a lawful official act and the coercion applies to an official act by threat or violence as resistance to state violence. Here you can imprisonment up to three years, in particularly serious cases up to five years, the consequence ( § 269Vorlage: § / Maintenance / RIS Search Criminal Code).

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the resistance against the state under Article 285 of the Swiss Penal Code f is regulated.

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