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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

‘A family used to live here’: The Spanish sticker rebellion battling tourist lets

A photo of one of the stickers posted on X by Dani Perez, Secretary General of PSOEmalaga.
A photo of one of the stickers that are cropping up all over Spain. Photograph: @aDanielPerez/X

Incensed after finding out his rental home of 10 years was about to become a tourist apartment, Dani Romero took to social media. What followed swiftly snowballed into a movement, as residents in Málaga began plastering stickers – reading “A family used to live here” or “Go home” – outside tourist lets across the southern Spanish city.

“I didn’t mean to arm a revolution,” said Romero. “I’m just looking for a house to live in.”

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