Genocide

Germany

Germany - Basic Law 1949 (2019) EN

IX. The Judiciary

Article 96
[Other federal courts]
(5) With the consent of the Bundesrat, a federal law may provide that courts of the Länder shall exercise federal jurisdiction over criminal proceedings in the following matters:
genocide;
crimes against humanity under international criminal law;
war crimes;
other acts tending to and undertaken with the intent to disturb the peaceful relations between nations (paragraph (1) of Article 26);

Germany - Code of Crimes against International Law 2002 EN

Article 1 Code of Crimes against International Law (CCAIL)

Part 2 Crimes against International Law

Chapter 1 Genocide and crimes against humanity

Section 6 Genocide

(1) Whoever with the intent of destroying as such, in whole or in part, a national, racial, religious or ethnic group

1. kills a member of the group,

2. causes serious bodily or mental harm to a member of the group, especially of the kind referred to in section 226 of the Criminal Code,

3. inflicts on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part,

4. imposes measures intended to prevent births within the group,

5. forcibly transfers a child of the group to another group shall be punished with imprisonment for life.

(2) In less serious cases referred to under subsection (1), numbers 2 to 5, the punishment shall be imprisonment for not less than five years.

Germany - Criminal Code 1871 (2013) EN

SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER SEVEN
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

Section 126
Breach of the public peace by threatening to commit offences

(1)
2. murder under specific aggravating circumstances (section 211), murder (section 212) or genocide (section 6 of the Code of International Criminal Law) or a crime against humanity (section 7 of the Code of International Criminal Law) or a war crime (section 8, section 9, section 10, section11 or section 12 of the Code of International Criminal Law);

SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER SEVEN
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

Section 129a
Forming terrorist organisations

(1) Whosoever forms an organisation whose aims or activities are directed at the commission of
1. murder under specific aggravating circumstances (section 211), murder (section 212) or genocide (section 6 of the Code of International Criminal Law) or a crime against humanity (section 7 of the Code of International Criminal Law) or a war crime (section 8, section 9, section 10, section11 or section 12 of the Code ofInternational Criminal Law); or

SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER SEVEN
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

Section 138
Omission to bring planned offences to the attention of the authorities

5. murder under specific aggravating circumstances (section 211), murder (section 212), genocide (section 6 of the Code of International Criminal Law), a crime against humanity (section 7 of the Code of International Criminal Law), or a war crime (section 8, section 9, section 10, section 11 or section 12 of the Code of International Criminal Law);

Rome Statute

Article 5 Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court

1. The jurisdiction of the Court shall be limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole. The Court has jurisdiction in accordance with this Statute with respect to the following crimes:

(a) The crime of genocide;