ABSTRACT
One among the major issues that are still to be explored in the field of criminal international law concerns the relationship between individuals' and States' international crimes. First of all, one could state that facts that constitute individuals' crimes could not be always qualified as State's crimes and vice-versa. The more, a number of States' crimes involve necessarily individuals' crimes as they may be committed only through acts or omissions of State's or public agents. Also, in the cases when the events that constitute simultaneously an individual and a State's crime, the International Law Commission has always assumed the autonomy and distinction of the two behaviours and of the responsibility that derives from them. In classical international law, punishment of responsible State's officials could constitute one among other ways of satisfaction that the injured State is entitled to obtain, but it is considered autonomous and separate from reparations and other obligations of the offender State.
