Only a handful of family members were allowed to attend.

The measure is part of a crackdown pledged by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing administration in response to a surge in boat arrivals from North Africa.

Matteo Messina Denaro was convicted of numerous crimes, including for his role in planning the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

Investigators have identified various criminal activities tied to the 'Ndrangheta, including large-scale drug trafficking, money laundering and extortion.

The victim's nine-year-old brother was seriously injured, while the two parents and the jet's pilot are not in life-threatening danger.

The consignment has an estimated value of US$946 million and five people have been arrested, reports say.

Berlusconi led Italy three times between 1994 and 2011, for a total of nine years, wooing voters with a promise of economic success only to be forced out as a debt crisis gripped his country.

The breakthrough comes less than a month after an operation in which European police arrested more than 100 mafia suspects in a major operation against drugs and weapons smuggling.

The floods are the latest in a series of extreme weather events that have slammed Italy over the past year, as once exceptional disasters become a regular part of life.

The suspects are accused of money laundering, criminal tax evasion, fraud and smuggling of drugs, mafia-type criminal association, possession and trafficking of weapons.

Police say it is one of the largest drug hauls ever made in Italy.

Italy, which has provisionally restricted ChatGPT's use of domestic users' personal data, becomes the first Western country to take action against a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence.