Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests dies, union says
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.
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"Speculation costs lives, and today rentierism has finished killing our colleague Maricarmen."
— Alicia del Río , Activist
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Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.
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