The death penalty or life imprisonment shall be imposed on anyone who forms a gang that attacks a group of residents, or resists with arms the public authority officers, in order to hinder the enforcement of the laws; and on anyone who becomes leader of such a gang or occupies any leading position therein. As for any person who joins such gang but has neither participated in its formation nor in its leadership, he shall be punished with life or temporary imprisonment.
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