Criminal penalties against environmental pollution according to the provision of the Algerian legislation

Abstract EN

The Algerian legislator has taken into account environment protection and has enacted texts of penal law that criminalize different infringements of environmental rights to secure an efficient penal protection against different pollution forms.

Criminal sanctions have been imposed as a repressive impact to guarantee commitment to legal texts preventing environment from environmental pollution crimes.

These sanctions could be death penalties, custodial penalties, and financial penalties.

Added to that, there could be complementary sanctions, such as seizing funds, sentence announcement, or infrastructure closer.