Section 9. Place of conduct

(1) A crime is deemed to have been committed at the place where the perpetrator acted or, in case of an omission, should have acted, or at the place where the statutorily proscribed harm occurs or where the perpetrator intended it to occur.
(2) Accessoryship is deemed to have occurred at the place where the crime was committed, as well as any place where the accessory acted or, in case of an omission, should have acted, or where he intended the crime to be committed. If the accessory acted in Germany in the commission of a crime abroad, his accessoryship is governed by German criminal law, even if the crime is not punishable according to the law of the place where it occurred.


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