Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction on September 23 has triggered a wave of demands and protests throughout Spain, has died in the Gregorio Marañón hospital after two weeks in hospital after she was expelled from the apartment in the Madrid district of Retiro where she had lived for more than seven decades.
The sad news has not taken long to spread and hundreds of those camped in Sol have undertaken a march towards the Congress of Deputies shouting "they are not deaths, they are murders", to show their indignation with what happened.
In addition to citizen reactions, celebrities have also mobilized and expressed their sadness and frustration over the death of the elderly woman on their social networks.
Ines Hernand
One of the first was Inés Hernand, who was able to interview Maricarmen and has had a close connection with the case: "I'm really terrible. I don't know if Maricarmen 'was up to it' or not; I don't care. What that woman has gone through over the last seven years has been hell. That hell is what thousands of families in vulnerable situations go through without anyone listening to them," she began in the text she published on her Instagram stories.
"Maricarmen's death has to make us look squarely at a reality that affects so many people in our country that it is terrifying. And the message is that we could be anyone. No one should lose their home and with it their dignity and their hope. Rest in peace. And may those of us who are still here know how to transform pain into humanity, solidarity and commitment so that situations like this do not happen again," he added in this regard.
In addition, she has shared a publication with a fragment of the interview that Maricarmen offered to her podcast, Saldremos Mejores, in October 2024. "Maricarmen came from the hand of Valeria from the Madrid Tenants' Union with this message. Two years later, she died in a hospital, evicted from her home. May this make thousands of people look squarely at the reality and that those of us who are still here know how to transform pain into humanity, solidarity and commitment so that situations like this do not repeat themselves. We are all Maricarmen," he noted along with the sequence.
David Ucles
Another of the well-known faces who has expressed his pain has been David Uclés "He just wanted to die at home. My heart was in my fist," the writer pointed out along with an image in which he relates the 7,291 elderly people who died in the residences of the Community of Madrid during the highest peak of Covid who were not transferred to hospitals and a "+1" referring to Maricarmen's situation.
Sarah Santaolalla
Also Sarah Santaolalla. "Maricarmen has just died. The vulture funds, the rentiers and the miserable politicians and media have put an end to Maricarmen's life. We will not forget, we will not forgive. The beating, the pressure, the questioning and the scoundrels have put an end to her. You will always be our lighthouse," the communicator wrote.
Ana Belen
"Sadness and rage. Mixed, disordered, overflowing. We have all witnessed what they have done to Maricarmen, who have wanted to benefit from her eviction, going to the end. And they have achieved it, in the most absolute way. In Madrid today an apartment remains empty, one more, devoured by those who enrich themselves by converting a right into a business. In the most lucrative and ruthless business. But from that space that has been taken from her, Maricarmen has left behind her struggle, her resistance, her urgency for a more just world. Rest in peace, Maricarmen. Your example lives on in all of us. And we will continue moving towards that horizon. We owe you infinite thanks to the Madrid Tenants Union and to those who have been with her all these years," reads the text that Ana Belén has shared on her Instagram profile.
Jordi Évole
"Let's see which Maricarmen resident they interview today. Or which real estate businessman they blur tonight. Vulture media. Scavenger media. Thank you, Maricarmen, for your example," Jordi Évole noted in a message on the social network X.
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