Fabio Repici: ''The ECHR is wrong, the wiretaps in Contrada were necessary'' AMTwo thousand May 25, 2024 The lawyer contests the Strasbourg ruling which condemned Italy to compensate the former 007 for wiretaps carried out in the investigation into the Agostino case “The ECtHR's decision was taken without the victim's family having had the opportunity to intervene, this should make us reflect on the risks of abuse of Strasbourg's jurisdiction. There were in fact obvious reasons that made the wiretaps ordered by the judicial authorities necessary." This was stated by the lawyer Fabio Repici, commenting on the sentence of the Strasbourg judges who once again condemned Italy to compensate the former head of the Palermo Flying Squad Bruno Contrada. The matter was made known on May 23rd by the lawyer Stefano Giordano, Contrada's lawyer. The question submitted to the Court, as Il Fatto Quotidiano recalls, concerned some telephone conversations of the former number three of the Sisde as part of the Palermo investigation into the murder of the policeman Nino Agostino and his wife Ida Castelluccio. The policeman was murdered on 5 August 1989 and was involved in the capture of mafia fugitives, a secret activity in which he discovered that "Cosa Nostra, and in this specific case the Madonia gang", had relationships "with important exponents of the police forces connected to the state security services"
