Piantedosi: Casapound is also part of the evictions, sooner or later its turn will come

"CasaPound is also coming back, I was as prefect of Rome the one who put it on the list of centres to be evicted, sooner or later its turn will come too". So said the Minister of the Interior Matteo Piantedosi asked on the sidelines of the Rimini Meeting after the eviction of the Leoncavallo social centre in Milan. To those who pointed out to him that his government colleague Alessandro Giuli said that the CasaPound building might not be cleared, the minister explained: 'I think he said that if you legalise it in some way it might not be cleared. It has already happened to other centres, the municipality of Rome even bought structures to legalise them, it has also happened in other cities'.

After the eviction of the social centre Leoncavallo in Milan, the galaxy of squatters of both private and public anarcho-antagonist properties, within which there are active collectives organising various kinds of initiatives, is still vast: there are at least 126 of them throughout Italy.

The occupations attributable to the Italian extreme right are instead two: CasaPound in Rome at its headquarters in Via Napoleone III and Spazio Libero Cervantes in Catania. And it was precisely on Casapound, as well as Spin Time, also in Rome, that the attention of Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi had fallen in recent months, according to Adnkronos. The incumbent of the Viminale, who as prefect of Rome had already included the two buildings on the list of buildings to be evicted, asked for a census to be carried out on the two structures to verify who actually lives there.

The census is normally used as a tool to identify people in vulnerable situations who are then rehoused. It is therefore not excluded that the dossier will be taken up again in the short term.

According to the mapping of non-compliant, i.e. untitled, occupations, of the 126 cases of anarcho-antagonist area, the largest number is in Lazio and in particular in Rome, where there are 48 occupied properties, 25 are in Lombardy, 15 in Campania, seven in Piedmont and seven in Sicily. Liguria, Veneto and Apulia count three occupations per region. In Emilia Romagna there are two such occupations while in Sardinia, Calabria and Abruzzo there is one per region. In all cases, these are occupations dating back in time. In fact, all new attempts in recent years have been foiled by the intervention of the police on the basis of the indications contained in a special directive issued by Piantedosi, which provides for the immediate eviction of any new occupation.