Grief and anger in Spain after death of evicted 87-year-old

“I haven’t been able to defend my home, but I have fought so that others learn to fight,” said María del Carmen Abascal, or Maricarmen, from hospital nearly two weeks ago.
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The 87-year-old, whose eviction from the flat she had lived in for seven decades set off a nationwide wave of protests against Spain’s housing crisis, has died.

The pensioner, whose apartment had been bought by an investment firm who sought to hike her rent by 230%, became a symbol of the many people left behind by Spain’s surging housing market.

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