Woman who became the symbol of a nation’s fury dies

Description: Woman who became the symbol of a nation’s fury dies

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Maricarmen Abascal was forcibly removed from her Madrid apartment of more than 70 years in September, after being hit with a five-fold increase in rent that she couldn’t afford.

Her heartbreaking story is one that’s all too familiar in Spain’s tourist-heavy cities, and the 87-year-old soon became the living symbol of the country’s spiralling housing crisis.

Since her eviction, she’d been in hospital for severe anxiety and exhaustion.

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