Legal-criminal analysis of the crime regarding the activity of mercenaries

Abstract

In accordance with the provisions of Article 2 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova, we note that the legislator enunciated a complex of supreme values, which the Criminal Law is intended to defend. Thus, according to the text of the law, persons, their rights and freedoms, property, environment, constitutional order, sovereignty, the independence and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova, the peace and security of humanity, and the entire order of law are protected. [1, Article 2 (1)] The activity of mercenaries is a crime that directly threatens the peace and security of mankind. Mercenaries are persons liable to criminal liability who possess a special quality. Their activity is illegal and subject to criminal liability by most countries in the world. In the order that follows, we propose as a desideratum - to perform a legal-criminal analysis of crimes related to the activity of mercenaries. Therefore, in this order of ideas of the existing social values in the society, we notice that the human community is also defended from the point of view of the peace and security of humanity. Which is presumed that the crimes in the field of war are not tolerated in objective reality, and in the case of their commission - criminal liability arises.