> A terrible experience all around. It was a threat to induce action, but neither extortion nor blackmail. Pretty sure that would be illegal under, for example

> A terrible experience all around. It was a threat to induce action, but neither extortion nor blackmail. Pretty sure that would be illegal under, for example, German law (§ 240 StGB, Nötigung); delivering a threat in order to have you do something (or not do something) that, when implemented, would create an [severe] disadvantage, is punishable even if you could not actually implement the threat (like the guy in your story).