Is flag burning illegal in Italy?
Criminal offense
Desecration of Italian or foreign national flags is prohibited by law and punishable by fines or imprisonment.
Italy is one of 55 countries classified “Criminal offense” for flag desecration — 82% of the 67 with data. (Also searched as flag burning.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Flag desecration
- Last checked
- 17 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- Croatia
- Criminal offense Desecrating any national flag is a felony punishable by up to one year of imprisonment.
- Slovenia
- Criminal offense Desecrating the national flag is a criminal offense punishable by fine or imprisonment.
- Austria
- Criminal offense Desecration of national and international symbols is illegal in Austria.
- Switzerland
- Criminal offense Desecrating national emblems installed by public authority is a crime in Switzerland.
- Hungary
- Criminal offense Desecration of the national flag is explicitly stated to be illegal in Hungary.
- North Macedonia
- Criminal offense Desecration of the national flag is banned under the Criminal Code.
Other laws in Italy
- Blasphemy Laws
- Fines / civil penalties
- Holocaust Denial
- Criminal offense
- Conversion Therapy
- No ban
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