Article 209 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE EIGHT. CRIMES AGAINST THE FREE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY. · CHAPTER VII. Provocation of a Crime and Apology for the Same or for some Vice and of the Omission to prevent a Crime that attacks the Free Development of Personality, Human Dignity or Physical or Mental Integrity.
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Whoever, being able to do so with their immediate intervention and without risk to themselves or others, does not prevent the commission of one of the crimes contemplated in Title VIII, Book Second, of this Code or in the Federal Law to Prevent and Punish Trafficking in Persons, shall be imposed the penalty of six months to three years of imprisonment and of fifty to two hundred days fine.
The same penalties shall be imposed on whoever, being able to do so, does not go to the authority or its agents so that they prevent a crime of those contemplated in the preceding paragraph and of whose imminent commission they have notice.
Said penalties shall be imposed on persons related or assigned to any institution, association, organization or grouping of a religious, cultural, sports, educational, recreational or any other nature and who have knowledge of the commission of the crimes referred to in the first paragraph of this article, when they do not inform the competent authority or protect the person who commits it, whether by hiding them, changing their seat or in any other form providing them protection.