Pillaging - NIAC

Hungary

Hungary - Criminal Code 1978 (2012) EN

SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XIV
WAR CRIMES

Assault on Protected Property

Section 153
(3) Any person who uses or utilizes cultural goods protected under international treaty, or the immediate surroundings thereof in support of military action, or makes such goods the object of theft, pillage, destruction or vandalism shall be punishable in accordance with Subsection (2).

SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XIV
WAR CRIMES

War-Time Looting

Section 154
(1) Any person who, in a theater of operations or occupied territory:
a) engages in looting the property of civilians;
b) deprives the people of its own means of subsistence by way of the coercion of services or by
other means, except where justified for military reasons; is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment between one to five years, insofar as the act did not result in a more serious criminal offense.
(2) Any person who loots the fallen, injured or sick on the battlefield is punishable by imprisonment between two to eight years.

Rome Statute

Article 8 War crimes

2. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘war crimes’ means:

(e) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of an international character, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:

(v) Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault;