Article 577 Spanish Criminal Code: Collaboration with terrorism

1. Whoever carries out, seeks or facilitates any act of collaboration with the activities or the purposes of a terrorist organisation, group or element, or in order to commit any of the offences covered by this Chapter, shall be punished with penalties of imprisonment of five to ten years and a fine of eighteen to twenty four months.

In particular, acts of collaboration are the provision of information on or the surveillance of persons, property or installations, the construction, fitting out, transfer or use of accommodation or depots, the concealment, harbouring or transfer of persons, the organisation of training practices or attendance at them, the provision of technological services, and any other equivalent form of cooperation with or assistance to the activities of the terrorist organisations or groups, or of the groups or persons referred to in the preceding subparagraph.

Where the provision of information on or the surveillance of persons mentioned in the preceding subparagraph places their life, physical integrity, liberty or property in danger, the penalty provided for in this paragraph shall be imposed in its upper half. If the impairment of any of those legal interests occurs, the act shall be punished as co perpetration or complicity, as the case may be.

2. The penalties provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be imposed upon those who carry out any activity of recruitment, indoctrination or training which is directed at, or which by its content is apt to incite, joining a terrorist organisation or group, or committing any of the offences covered by this Chapter.

Likewise, these penalties shall be imposed upon those who provide training or instruction on the manufacture or use of explosives, firearms or other weapons or harmful or dangerous substances, or on methods or techniques particularly suited to the commission of one of the offences of Article 573, with the intention or the knowledge that they are to be used for that purpose.

The penalties shall be imposed in their upper half, and may be raised to the next higher degree, where the acts provided for in this paragraph have been directed at minors or at persons with a disability in need of special protection, or at women who are victims of trafficking with the purpose of turning them into spouses, companions or sexual slaves of the perpetrators of the offence, without prejudice to the imposition of such further penalties as may correspond for the offences against sexual freedom committed.

3. If the collaboration with the activities or the purposes of a terrorist organisation or group, or in the commission of any of the offences covered by this Chapter, has occurred through gross negligence, a penalty of imprisonment of six to eighteen months and a fine of six to twelve months shall be imposed.

Working translation prepared by Société Juridique from the consolidated Spanish text published by the Official State Gazette. It has no official status: the only authoritative version is the Spanish original, available at the Official State Gazette and reproduced verbatim in our Spanish-language entry for this provision. Source: Organic Law 10/1995 of 23 November, the Spanish Criminal Code.