Mario Nawfal(@MarioNawfal):🇪🇸 Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old whose eviction from her Madrid home of 70+ years set off Spain's mass housing protests, has died. She had been in hospital with severe anxiety and exhaustion since police and social workers carried her out on a stretcher last month, after an investment fund bought her building. Days later, her lawyer secured a deal letting her return home at her old rent, but she never got well enough to sign it. Thousands marched toward parliament after the news, chanting "This is not a death. It's a murder!" Source: Reuters / Writer: Julie

2026.10.08 08:20

🇪🇸 Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old whose eviction from her Madrid home of 70+ years set off Spain's mass housing protests, has died. She had been in hospital with severe anxiety and exhaustion since police and social workers carried her out on a stretcher last month, after an investment fund bought her building. Days later, her lawyer secured a deal letting her return home at her old rent, but she never got well enough to sign it. Thousands marched toward parliament after the news, chanting "This is not a death. It's a murder!" Source: Reuters / Writer: Julie