The Crime of harming public roads

Abstract

The public roads are an important facility for the state. The attack is a crime that harms society and the state. As a result of this importance, the legislator paid special attention to it by stipulating many of the sanctions imposed on the perpetrators of these attacks. The crime consists only of two corners of the physical pillar, the second is the moral element, and the mere damage to the public road does not raise the criminal liability of the perpetrator of the malicious act. For the conduct of the danger of obstructing traffic on the public road or danger to the users of the public road, and the crime of harm to public roads of crimes and misdemeanors in terms of gravity. It is noted that the Iraqi Highway Law includes the main public roads between cities and bridges of different types located within the borders of the Municipality of Baghdad and municipalities and beyond. And the crime of causing damage to public roads in the street requires the availability of criminal intent, which consists of science elements of the crime and the will to commit, and decided the Iraqi legislator punishment for each right to damage the public road and obstructing the traffic on the highway or traffic, and posed a danger to the user of the road, Public roads threaten the interests of the first of the interests of the country covered by the criminal law protection, the attack on public roads constitute an attack on the threat to the country's internal security, especially after the associated crimes with descriptions that make it inherent to affect that security as a description of terrorism, Because of the establishment of that establishment of the national economy, so the attack is a blow to the economy and demolition and to determine the efficiency of criminal texts in the protection of public roads and to identify the weaknesses of the Iraqi legislation on the subject and to benefit from comparative legislation in this area our determination to investigate the crime of harm By public roads.