The Police Commissioner of Reggio Calabria, Bruno Megale, has banned the funeral in public and solemn form for Francesco Alvaro, aged 81, who died in the Great Metropolitan Hospital, considered - it is said in a press release from the Police Headquarters - a top element of the homonymous gang di 'Ndrangheta, operating in Sinopoli and in the neighboring municipalities .

Alvaro's body was moved from the hospital in Reggio Calabria directly to the cemetery of Sinopoli, where a religious function was held in the presence only of close relatives .