Key legal question
Whether Art. 97 Abs. 1 lit. a SVG in the 2012 version criminalized misuse of a license plate alone.
Extracted holding
Yes. The French version and interpretive methods showed that single misuse of either documents or plates remained punishable; the conviction did not violate legality.
Extracted reasoning
The 2012 wording in German and Italian was the result of a drafting error. The statutory versions must be interpreted to determine the meaning; applying the correctly interpreted version does not breach Art. 1 StGB.