Safety closure for doors or flaps arranged on a vehicle, in particular motorhome or caravan, a rotary clamping sleeve (12) with a second bearing region (13) having a slotted guide (25) for the locking shaft (22), which is arranged rotatably therein and displaceably axially relative thereto, as a support for the closure tongue (28), is mounted rotatably in the closure housing (11), wherein the operating handle (15) is guided in the rotary clamping sleeve (12), by means of a shaft attachment (16) reaching into a first bearing region (14) of the rotary clamping sleeve (12), in a manner such that said operating handle is displaceable axially between the latching position thereof and the operating position thereof counter to the force of a spring (18) prestressing the operating handle (15) into the operating position thereof, and is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner to the rotary clamping sleeve (12)