The Court of Appeal of Palermo accepted the request for compensation for unjust detention presented by Bruno Contrada, former number two of the Sisde, sentenced to 10 years for external competition in mafia association . In Contrada, defended by the lawyer Stefano Giordano, 670 thousand euros were paid. The conviction of the former policeman was found illegitimate by the European Court of Human Rights and by the Cassation.
"The damage that I, my family, my personal history, we have suffered are irreparable and there is no compensation that is worth. I camp with 10 euros a day. Being closed for the coronavirus does not weigh me: I was imprisoned 8 years "said the former chief executive of the state police after learning of the appeal court's decision. "Money - he added - cannot compensate 28 years of damages. When in 2017 the Cassation acknowledged the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights I felt a moment of gratification. Europe recognized my human and judicial misfortune But I felt pain only by reading the documents of that case that began "Bruno Contrada against Italy. I have lived since I was a child with the highest value of the country, Italy, and the state. Only for this I would be entitled to compensation : they destroyed the certainties and values in which I believed a life ".
"I wait to read the reasons, the reasoning and the arguments of the Court - he explained - There is no money to pay for the suffering that my family suffered. My son who was a policeman is seriously ill: a young man who has seen his father, General Manager of the State Police, the same of whom he wore the uniform that was a myth to him, arrested and accused of very serious things. My wife who fell ill heartily immediately after my arrest. Can there be compensation? Spy, agent secret, always appellations to throw mud at me. I am a general manager of the PS applied to the security services that as deputy commissioner has climbed all the ranks of the State Police ".
