Key legal question
Whether the conduct toward C________ constituted kidnapping and unlawful detention under Art. 183 CP
Extracted holding
Yes. By deception the defendant led the victim to a place she would not have accepted, placing her under his control; the offense covers both sequestration and abduction as one unitary offense.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that deceit qualifies as ruse under Art. 183 CP and that once the victim was taken to the wooded area she could not return to Geneva independently of the defendant. The distinction between sequestration and abduction is not decisive because both are variants of the same offense.