The incrimination of defamation is provided for inArticle 173 of the Swiss Penal Code:
” The one who, by addressing a third party, will have accused a person or thrown on him the suspicion of holding a conduct contrary to the honor, or of any other fact likely to damage his consideration,
the one who will have propagated such an accusation or such a suspicion,
shall, upon complaint, be punished by a pecuniary penalty.
(…) “
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