Murder of Davide Cesare
2003 murder in Milan, Italy
The murder of Davide Cesare occurred on the morning of 16 March 2003 in Milan, Italy.
Cesare was an anti-fascist activist. Although the perpetrators of the crime denied belonging to any political group, their strong sympathy for far-right circles gave the event and the trial that followed a wide resonance, both in Italy and abroad.
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Davide Cesare, known as Dax, was 26 years old, lived in Rozzano, in the province of Milan. Cesare was born in Brescia on 7 November 1976. In 2003, he had a six-year-old daughter, worked as a labourer and truck driver. He was also an activist at the social centre in Via Gola. The week before his murder, on 10 March 2003, Federico Morbi was attacked while walking his dog, named "Rommel" in honour of the Afrikakorps general. The dog's name, an indication of neo-Nazi sympathies, triggered an attack against Morbi which was reported to the police the following day. Morbi suffered injuries which were judged to heal in five days.
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