Question juridique clé
Whether the phone statements to the tax officer amounted to a serious threat under Art. 285 StGB.
Solution extraite
Yes. The statements, including that he would come in person and beat the officer up, were serious enough to qualify as a threat capable of compelling an official act.
Motifs extraits
A threat under Art. 285 StGB must contain a certain seriousness; not every threat suffices. Here, the words used, combined with the aggressive context and the reaction of fear and precautionary measures, met that threshold.