Key legal question
Whether the accused qualified for exemption from punishment for preparatory acts after abandoning the robbery plan.
Extracted holding
Art. 260bis al. 2 CP applies whenever the offender spontaneously renounces the planned offense before the start of execution, regardless of whether all preparatory acts were completed.
Extracted reasoning
The Court abandoned the prior distinction between completed and incomplete preparatory acts. The preparatory phase ends only when execution begins; before that point, a spontaneous renunciation of the criminal project suffices for the mandatory exemption.