An 87-year-old's Sept. 23 stretcher eviction filled Puerta del Sol with tents; six days later Spain froze evictions to 2030 and she was offered her flat back.
The forced removal of an 87-year-old in Madrid triggers massive protests. The government decides a package against rising rents. Now it is threatened with a slump with possible far-reaching consequences.
A procedural decision and the call to the palliative doctor who attended this matriarch, before he applied for voluntary discharge to spend his last days at home with his relatives, stopped the eviction.