Article 582 — Coercion.

Whoever resorts to violence or to threats of a serious injury to the victim or to a third party tied to him by blood, marriage or affection within the meaning of the preceding Article, or by interfering in any other unlawful or improper way with the liberty of action of another, compels him to do a thing or to permit it to be done, or to refrain from doing it or from permitting it to be done, is punishable, where the crime does not come under a more severe specific provision, with simple imprisonment not exceeding three years, or fine.