Police, along with the bailiff, carried out this morning the eviction of the Leoncavallo Social Center on Watteau Street in Milan. The order, which had been postponed for years - more than a hundred times - had been accompanied last November by an order by the Ministry of the Interior to pay compensation of three million euros to the owners of the area, the Cabassi family, precisely for the failure to evict them. During the operations, activists made an appeal on social media, “We are being evicted, roll up, roll up to Watteau Street”. Leoncavallo had been occupying these spaces since 1994, after moving from its historic headquarters on Leoncavallo Street, which had been active since 1975. There was no shortage of political reactions. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini rejoiced, writing on X: "Decades of lawlessness tolerated by the left: now at last change. The law is the same for everyone: afuera!" Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi also claimed the operation, calling it the end of “a long season of lawlessness” and recalling that nearly four thousand properties have already been cleared since the beginning of the government's term. In recent months, the “Mamme del Leoncavallo” association had expressed interest in a municipal property on San Dionigi Street, a possible alternative location for the center's activities.