Maricarmen: Eviction of Elderly Woman in Madrid Sparks Social and Political Outrage
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Dear fellow citizens, I feel it is my duty to appear before you in the wake of the social and political upheaval caused by the eviction of 87-year-old Madrid's Maricarmen.
In response to a Twitter user who described as "violence" the increase in rent applied to the evicted woman, lawyer Victor Soriano, adviser attached to the First Secretariat of the Senate, Eva Ortiz (PP), said: "Having 87 years does not give you the right to live at the expense of others in a noble dwelling in a bourgeois neighborhood"
Maricarmen: Eviction of elderly woman in Madrid sparks social and political outrage
Maricarmen Abascal is 87 years old and for the last 71 years she had lived in the same apartment in Madrid’s central Retiro neighborhood. On Wednesday, September 23, 2026, she was taken out on a stretcher after the police carried out her eviction on their fourth attempt. Hundreds of people were waiting for her outside. For months neighbors, activists and cultural figures had been trying to prevent her from losing a home that has been part of her…
This Wednesday there was the eviction of the property located in the district of Retiro. More information: Maricarmen was evicted despite the concentration of 400 people to avoid it: for 71 years living in that house
A Portuguese Maricarmen, at this age and with the contract in her name, would be safe. But Maricarmen was not evicted because she was 87 years old, not even because she was a tenant; she was evicted because she was a daughter.
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