87-Year-Old Woman Evicted From Madrid Home After 70 Years Despite Mass Protests and Offer to Pay Her Rent
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In 2018, the apartment the woman rented was purchased by an investment fund, and the rent rose explosively.
Violence, tear gas and crying have characterized a street in central Madrid on Wednesday, where an 87-year-old woman in a wheelchair has been forced out of her apartment after seven decades.
Algemeen Dagblad
bd.nlAfter a years-long legal battle and despite fierce protests from hundreds of activists, 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal was evicted from her home in Madrid on Wednesday morning after 71 years. The elderly, disabled woman has become a symbol of the Spanish housing crisis. She had a conflict with the landlord of the property, a large investment fund.
Maricarmen Abascal's case moved Spain and showed the most perverse side of real estate speculation.A protest march ended with incidents in the capital.The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, unmarked the conflict.
On Wednesday, police evacuated a 87-year-old woman from her home in Madrid, where she had been living for more than seven decades, despite protests by hundreds of people in front of the building and government criticism of the evacuation order, in a new dramatic case illustrating the crisis of Spanish homes.
Maricarmen Abascal was removed on a stretcher from his Retiro department after the fourth eviction attempt; neighbors, artists and political leaders tried to stop him and the case went viral.
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