Key legal question
Whether the March 3, 2003 conduct fulfilled the elements of hostage-taking under Art. 185 CP
Extracted holding
Yes. The defendant, by forcibly confining employees in toilets under armed threats to make others open the safe, rendered himself master of hostages with the requisite intent.
Extracted reasoning
Hostage-taking is completed once the author, to compel a third person, seizes control of a victim by sequestration, abduction, or any comparable domination. The employees were clearly restrained and used to pressure the person believed to control access to the safe.