والأرجح أن يكون الرد بالإيجاب إذا كان ذلك المواطن قد ارتبط، مقابل أجر، بدولة أخرى أو بمنظمة في دولة أخرى بغرض التدخل في شؤون بلده وارتكاب أفعال إجرامية ضده.
To the question of whether a national who attacks his own country and commits crimes can be defined as a mercenary, the reply would need to be affirmative if that national is linked to another State or to an organization of another State which has paid him to intervene and commit crimes against the country of which he is a national.