Key legal question
Whether threatening to report illegal parkers unless they paid CHF 30 constituted coercion under Art. 181 StGB.
Extracted holding
The conduct was not coercion because the demanded amount corresponded to a legitimate reimbursement claim for concrete expenses and was not excessive.
Extracted reasoning
A threat of prosecution can be coercive, but only if the demanded payment is unjustified or the means/end link is abusive. Here the threat and the fee both related to the unlawful parking; the requested amount covered actual time and out-of-pocket expenses and was therefore permissible.