Career
Cesare was brought to the hospital but died in the ambulance. This resulted in new riots with several people being injured, damage to police cars, and the emergency department suspending all activities for the whole night. Cesare"s death and the following trial had a wide political resonance in far-left circles, both in Italy and abroad.
This was partly because the Italian media initially portrayed the events as a "riot between young dissidents" and, according to some sources, deliberately misrepresented Cesare"s death as "a consequence of anti-globalization violence".
During the trial, it turned out that brothers Federico Morbi and Mattia Morbi, the aggressors of Cesare, had in fact assaulted and killed him with premeditation. They were declared guilty in May 2004.
Federico was sentenced to 16 years in jail, while Mattia (who was a minor at the time of the facts) was sentenced to 3 years. One of the lawyers that represented the family of Cesare in the trial was Giuliano Pisapia, who would later become Mayor of Milan (assumed office in June 1, 2011).
A plaque has been placed in Via Brioschi (the street of Milan where he was killed).
Graffiti in memory of Dax are quite common in Milan, but have also appeared elsewhere and abroad. They usually read "Dax vive" ("Dax lives", in Italian) or "Dax odia ancora" ("Dax still hates").
