أشكال جرائم المساس بالتراث الثقافي

Abstract EN

Crimes against cultural heritage are among the most serious crimes that threaten international peace and security, as an attack on national culture and a change in cultural identity, including several crimes, including selling, concealing, distorting and destroying the illegal possession of cultural property.

The latter that leads to the falsification and distortion of history, and other crimes and assaults on them, therefore it was necessary to be surrounded by legal protection by criminalizing these various crimes, whether at the national or international level, and to study this crime must be seen as a multiplicity of angles that It addresses them, shows their images and manifestations that distinguish them from other crimes, and examine sought action against crimes and efforts to counter them.

This criminal phenomenon, which targets the cultural identity of human societies, leads to the interruption of peoples from their historical and cultural past, and contributes to the cultural and intellectual invasion from here, shows how serious they are, which now requires concerted international efforts in combating these crimes and all forms of crime.

Prejudice to cultural heritage.