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Cesare Mori
Member of the Italian Senate
In office 10 January 1928 – 5 July 1942
Monarch
Victor Emmanuel III
Prefect of Palermo
In office 1 November 1925 – 1 June 1929
Prefect of Trapani
In office 2 June 1924 – 12 October 1925
Prefect of Bologna
In office 8 February 1921 – 20 August 1922
Police commissioner of Castelvetrano
In office 1909 – January 1915
Personal details
Born
(1871-12-22)22 December 1871 Pavia, Kingdom of Italy
Died
5 July 1942(1942-07-05) (aged 70) Udine, Friuli, Kingdom of Italy
Political party
National Fascist Party
Spouse(s)
Angelina Salvi
(m. 1897–1942)
; her death
Alma mater
University of Palermo (Hd)
Profession
Soldier, police officer, politician
Nickname
"The Iron Prefect"
Military service
Allegiance
Kingdom of Italy
Branch/service
Royal Italian Army
Years of service
1895–1898
Rank
Soldier
Battles/wars
None
Cesare Mori (Italian pronunciation:[ˈtʃeːzareˈmɔri,ˈtʃɛː-]; 22 December 1871 – 5 July 1942) was a prefect (prefetto) before and during the Italian Fascism period. He is known in Italy as the "Iron Prefect" (Prefetto di Ferro) because of his iron-fisted campaigns against Sicilian Mafia in the second half of the 1920s.
Mori described himself as a Fascist, and wrote strongly of his admiration of the effectiveness of both the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini several times in his self authored accounts in Sicily, "What caused the undoubted efforts made in the past to peter out was a feeling of listlessness, in the minds of the people which seemed refractory even to unusual stimulants. It was not a reality, it was not a fact, but a feeling; yet the past was infected and dominated by it until the day when, on the coming of Fascism, the Duce in person broke the evil spell."[1] Mori is also known for being the first to ever destroy the influence of the Mafia within Italy.[2][3] The 1977 film Il prefetto di ferro, directed by Pasquale Squitieri, is about his fight against the Mafia when he was prefect in Sicily.
^Mori, Cesare (1933). The Last Struggle With the Mafia. Black House. p. 141. ISBN 978-1-910881-38-5.
^Mori, Cesare (1933). The Last Struggle With the Mafia. Black House. pp. 5, 205. ISBN 978-1-910881-38-5.
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CesareMori (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtʃeːzare ˈmɔri, ˈtʃɛː-]; 22 December 1871 – 5 July 1942) was a prefect (prefetto) before and during the Italian Fascism...
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Mussolini firmly established his power in January 1925, he appointed CesareMori as the Prefect of Palermo, with the order to eradicate the Mafia at any...
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'Ndrangheta in Calabria, the Fascist government gave special powers in 1925 to CesareMori, the prefect of Palermo. These powers gave him the ability to prosecute...
operate at all". After the rise of Benito Mussolini, the "Iron Prefect", CesareMori, tried to defeat the already powerful criminal organizations flowering...
prefetto di ferro (1977, directed by Pasquale Squitieri), as Prefetto CesareMori Closed Circuit (1978, TV movie, directed by Giuliano Montaldo) The Greatest...
agenda. To gain control of the South, especially Sicily, he appointed CesareMori as a Prefect of the city of Palermo, with the charge of eradicating the...
proper Italian". After the rise of Benito Mussolini, the "Iron Prefect" CesareMori tried to defeat the already powerful criminal organizations flourishing...
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government of Benito Mussolini, who sent the island in 1924 the prefect CesareMori. These were gradually able to extend their influence across all sectors...
appointed CesareMori as the prefect of Palermo and granted special powers to persecute the Mafia. Vizzini claimed to have been incarcerated by Mori, but there...
minor technicality. In the 1920s, CesareMori was sent to Sicily by Benito Mussolini to combat the Mafia, although Mori's crude method of imprisoning thousands...
Antonio Saitta. He had been prosecuted by Mussolini’s Iron Prefect, CesareMori. One of his daughters was the mother of Giuseppe and Antonino Calderone...
Fascism, his reputation and immunity were declining. In May 1926, Prefect CesareMori, under orders from Fascist leader Benito Mussolini to destroy the Mafia...
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Farinella, already known as a criminal in the days of the Iron Prefect, CesareMori, appointed by Benito Mussolini to suppress the Mafia in the late 1920s...
law of silence (omertà). In 1929, the National Fascist Party prefect CesareMori arrested him with 331 other mafiosi during a massive raid. In 1928 he...
full powers to "pacify" "difficult" regions (already experimented with CesareMori in Sicily), Mussolini chose to entrust South Tyrol to Mastromattei, who...
Antonio Saitta. He had been prosecuted by Mussolini’s Iron Prefect, CesareMori. One of his daughters was the mother of Giuseppe and Antonino Calderone...
province. 26 May – Fascist concentration in Bologna to remove the prefect CesareMori, accused of having used the police to suppress the actions of fascist...
had taken power in the districts of Trapani and Alcamo, the commissary CesareMori intervened with a series of arrests and charges against the material...
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