Article 286 Federal Criminal Code

On anyone who in a depopulated place or in a solitary spot makes use of violence on a person with the purpose of causing a harm, obtaining a profit or demanding his assent for any end and whatever the means and the degree of violence that is employed, and independently of any criminal act that results committed, he shall be punished with imprisonment of from one to five years.

The penalty shall be from ten to thirty years of imprisonment for the one who in general communication routes such as roads, highways, bridges or railways, makes use of violence against the occupants of a vehicle of public or private transport.