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Carried out on a stretcher, dead before she could go home: Maricarmen and Madrid's housing reckoning
Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old whose eviction from her Madrid flat of 70 years sparked nationwide housing protests, has died in hospital. A tenants union said a deal that would have let her return home came too late. Her case helped force an early election in Spain.
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