“It Was Like a Concentration Camp”: the Battle of the Residents of El Portús Campsite Against Their Eviction

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Collin and Margaret Stewart, a British retired couple, bought a house in 1989 at the campsite of the Portus, in Cartagena (Murcia, 220,000 inhabitants), and moved to it permanently in 2000. Writer Eugenia Rico found in that same place in 2006 what she considered to be the ideal house to carry out her work: she invested 125,000 euros, signed up and fixed her permanent residence there. José Juan Leal and Miguel Almagro, who had spent years summeri…