No criminal liability shall be held against anyone who is forced to commit a crime in order to protect his person or property or the person or property of others from a serious and imminent danger, of which occurrence is beyond his own will. No criminal liability shall also be held against anyone who has been physically or morally constrained to commit a crime. In the two cases stipulated in the two preceding paragraphs, the perpetrator must not have the ability to prevent the danger by any other means, and the crime must be proportionate to the danger and to the extent necessary to repel it.
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