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Ashifa Kassam and Sam Jones in Madrid

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

Maricarmen claps and smiles joyfully on a street, celebrating with people and a megaphone nearby
Maricarmen in Madrid in October 2025. Photograph: Europa Press News/Europa Press/Getty Images

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.

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