Maricarmen, evicted at 87, will return to her home after reaching an agreement

Maricarmen returns home. The 87-year-old woman has accepted the agreement that the company that owns her apartment has offered her and will return when she leaves the Gregorio Marañón hospital, where she has been admitted for six days, when she was evicted from her apartment where she has lived for the last 71 years.

After more than four hours of meeting between the owners, the lawyer and relatives of Maricarmen and the Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS), which has acted as mediator, the company has accepted that the person who was a tenant of that Retiro apartment for seven decades returns with a new rental. The Tenants' Union also participated in the meeting, which had asked to be present in the negotiations and has warned that the camping in Puerta del Sol will continue: "This goes further."

"The agreement will allow Maricarmen to return to the property on Alcalde Sainz de Baranda Street as a tenant. It will allow Mrs. Abascal to return to what had been her home immediately, for a price that does not exceed 30% of her net income. The calculation will be made based on the declaration provided by the party [by Maricarmen]," De Miguel detailed at the end of the meeting. The contract will be valid for eight years. His lawyer, Beatriz Duro, has indicated that the rental price will be a similar amount to what he had been paying, around 500 euros between rent, expenses and community. “If this ends with Maricarmen entering her home, it is a historic milestone,” says Duro.