María del Carmen Abascal, symbol of Spain’s housing protests, dies aged 87

Maricarmen’s eviction from Madrid apartment after over seven decades set off wave of protests against housing crisis

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María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old whose eviction set off a nationwide wave of protests against Spain’s housing crisis, has died.

News of her death came two weeks after Maricarmen, as she had come to be known across Spain, was evicted from the Madrid apartment where she had lived for more than seven decades.