Hanging linked to phone tapping revisited after EU ruling

An appeals court prosecutor in Athens has asked to see the case file concerning the death of a telecoms engineer in 2005 shortly before the outbreak of a scandal involving the wiretapping of Greece's political leadership, to ascertain whether it needs to be reopened. 

The decision to revisit the case came after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) deemed on Thursday that Greece had failed to fully investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of former Vodafone employee Costas Tsalikidis, 38, who was found hanged in his apartment. 

The investigating prosecutor at the time, Ioannis Diotis, had ruled out foul play, concluding that Tsalikidis had committed suicided.

Unconvinced by the conclusion of Greek judicial authorities and armed with new evidence that emerged in 2012 that contradicted some of the findings of the original autopsy report and police...