Insults are actions or expressions that harm another person's dignity, damaging their reputation or undermining their self-esteem.
Only insults that, by their nature, effects, and circumstances, are considered serious in the public eye will constitute a crime, without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 4 of Article 173.
Insults consisting of imputations of facts will not be considered serious, except when they have been made with knowledge of their falsity or reckless disregard for the truth.