Kidnapping or holding a person hostage in order to gain wealth or any other benefit, to facilitate the preparation of conditions for committing a crime, helping in hiding or departure of perpetrators or collaborators of a crime, avoiding the punishment, forcing the realization of certain requests or circumstances, for political or other reasons, is punishable by imprisonment of from ten to twenty years.
This very act, committed against a minor under the age of fourteen, is punishable by imprisonment of not less than fifteen years.
Kidnapping or holding hostage a person or a minor under the age of fourteen, preceded or accompanied with physical or psychic tortures, when it is committed against several persons or more than once, is punishable by imprisonment of not less than twenty years, and when it resulted in death, is punishable by life imprisonment.
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