1 Political crimes are (i) particular criminal conducts (acts or omissions) which comply with the criminal rules that serve exclusively the protection of the interests of the state; in a strict sense, crimes against the organized structure of the state, or (ii) ordinary criminal conducts, which are committed in order to reach or to prevent certain political objectives. Two main criteria will be better formulated rather than giving a certain and precise definition of the political crime in order to answer what makes a crime ‘political’ (Section D of this article)....