Wechat threat is illegal, and if the circumstances are serious, it will be punished by public security, but it does not constitute a crime. According to relevant regulations, anyone who writes threatening letters or threatens the personal safety of others by other means shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan.
The elements that threaten others are as follows:
1, the legal interests violated by this crime are the peace of personal daily life and the freedom of life safety from intimidation by others.
2. The object of this crime is a single natural person.
3. The act of this crime is intimidation, that is, informing others of things that endanger life, body, freedom, reputation, property, etc. , make them afraid. The content of injury is limited to the injury to life, body, freedom, reputation, property and other matters. The actor can objectively inform others of the content of the harm, regardless of whether the actor really has the intention to realize the harm subjectively.
The harm informed by the actor must be controlled by the actor, which is generally considered to be enough to cause harm objectively. Intimidation must be carried out in a direct or explicit indirect way, excluding uncertain indirect ways. The so-called indirect certainty means that although the perpetrator did not directly intimidate the victim, he informed the specific person of the fact of intimidation and clearly informed the victim. The so-called uncertainty indirectness means that the actor only threatens an unspecified person with facts, and does not explicitly tell anyone to tell the victim to threaten the facts.
4. The perpetrator's threatening behavior, once completed, can make the victim feel scared, and this crime can be constituted when the threat of the perpetrator does not become a fact.
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Legal basis: Article 42 of People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Administration Punishment Law.
One of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:
(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;
(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;
(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;
(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;
(5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;
(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.