Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests dies, union says
The Madrid Tenants’ Union said her eviction became a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis and helped drive nationwide protests and an early election.
- On Tuesday, the Madrid Tenants' Union announced that 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal had died following her forced eviction from her Madrid home in September. The union called her case "a turning point in the history of this country."
- Abascal had lived in Madrid's Retiro district for more than 70 years before her eviction on September 23. Her rent surged from $560 to $2,970, forcing her removal from the apartment.
- Hospitalized since her eviction, Abascal remained unable to finalize a return agreement the property fund eventually offered at a lower rate. She died before the arrangement could be completed.
- Her plight sparked nationwide protests over Spain's housing crisis, pressuring the government. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez consequently decided on Monday to call an early general election following mass demonstrations.
- Abascal became a symbol for Spain's housing crisis, her case representing the broader struggle over rental regulations and tenant protections. The Madrid Tenants' Union continues demanding systemic policy changes nationwide.
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A resident of Madrid, Maricarmen Abascal, because of who eviction from an apartment in Spain, mass protests began, died at the age of 87. Abascal has been living in an apartment in the capital of Spain for 70 years and has been paying 500 euros for it for years.
ANALYSIS. It had become the age of a part of the Spaniards struggling with a real estate crisis that is growing year after year. Recently expelled from her apartment, at 87 years old, Maria del Carmen Abascal died on her hospital bedWhat died Maricarmen? The shock, rampant and fury seized a good part of the Spaniards by learning of the death Wednesday night of the one who, at 87 years old, for several weeks already embodied impotence and exasper…
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