"Francesco Messina Denaro said he had commissioned Vincenzo Virga to carry out the murder of Mauro Rostagno" and this "detail" reported, among others, by his collaborator of justice Vincenzo Sinacori, "is in no way incompatible with the reconstruction of how the governing bodies of 'Cosa Nostra' operated in the deliberation of excellent murders ".
The Supreme Court writes this in the reasons for confirming the life sentence for the boss Virga accused of being the instigator of the killing of Rostagno, on input from Messina Denaro, in a totally mafia decision-making context that excludes "alternative paths" or "second thoughts".
In addition to Virga's responsibility for his position as head of the district of Trapani - territory in which on the evening of September 26, 1988, 32 years ago Rostagno was killed in Valderice while he was returning to the community of Saman, the Supreme Court also indicates other "positive elements "on the basis of which, in his opinion, the Palermo Court of Assizes of Appeal correctly sentenced the boss. For the supreme judges Virga's involvement can be inferred "in the absence, following the commission of the murder, of disturbances in the territory controlled by the district of Trapani, with the stable continuation of the direction of Virga who was able to plan other important murders, demonstration logically unequivocal of full adherence to the murder of Mauro Rostagno ". (HANDLE).
