Criminal Code Warning: this is not an official translation. Under all circumstances the original text in Dutch language of the Criminal Code (Wetboek van Strafrecht) prevails

Section 200 
1.  Any person who intentionally destroys, damages, renders unusable or disposes of objects intended 
to serve the competent authorities as evidence or proof, instruments, documents or registers 
permanently or temporarily held for safekeeping by order of the authorities, or which have been 
handed over either to a civil servant or any other person in the interest of public service, shall be 
liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding three years or a fine of the fourth category. 
2.  Competent authorities shall also be understood to mean: an international court which derives its 
jurisdiction from a convention to which the Kingdom is a contracting party. 
Section 201 
Any person, who intentionally prevents from reaching their destination, opens, or damages letters or 
other matter delivered to a post or telegraph office or put into a mailbox shall be liable to a term of 
imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine of the third category. 
Section 202 
If the offender committing any of the offences defined in sections 198-201 gains access to the scene 
of the serious offence or obtains the property by means of forcible entry, breaking into or climbing in, 
by means of false keys, a false order or a false uniform, the punishment may be increased by a term of 
imprisonment not exceeding one year.  
Section 203 
 Any person who, in peacetime, intentionally encourages the desertion of a soldier in the service of the 
Kingdom by any of the means listed in section 47(1) (2°), or promotes such desertion in any way listed 
in section 48, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months or a fine of the third 
category.  
Section 204 

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105 
 
Any person who, in peacetime, intentionally solicits a riot or a mutiny of soldiers in the service of the 
Kingdom by any of the means listed in section 47(1)(2°), or promotes such in any way listed in section 
48, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six years or a fine of the fourth category.