Key legal question
Whether the defendant's purchase and preparation of a loaded firearm and rental of a chalet constituted preparatory acts punishable under Art. 260bis CP for planned murder
Extracted holding
Yes. The acts were concrete, planned, and objectively and subjectively directed toward committing murder; no withdrawal exemption was established.
Extracted reasoning
Buying and operationalizing the pistol and reserving the chalet were practical preparations showing a resolved plan to kill the victim if she did not submit. The defendant's later abandonment was not shown to be voluntary renunciation within Art. 260bis al. 2 CP.