Key legal question
Whether the accused's conduct constituted cruel treatment qualifying deprivation of liberty under Art. 184(3) StGB.
Extracted holding
No. The violence and threats were not sufficiently linked to the deprivation of liberty itself; they related mainly to the relationship dispute and did not make the confinement especially unbearable as such.
Extracted reasoning
Cruel treatment under Art. 184(3) StGB requires special suffering beyond the normal deprivation inherent in detention and must concern the circumstances of the confinement itself. Additional violent acts do not suffice if they are not part of the qualified manner of the liberty deprivation.