Maricarmen accepts deal negotiated with company and will return home

Maricarmen Abascal, 87, has been admitted to a hospital in Madrid since the day she was evicted and said she was “very happy” with the agreement reached on Monday, said lawyer Beatriz Duro.

The elderly woman hopes to be recovered and to be discharged “as soon as before” to be able to return home, she added.

The case of Maricarmen Abascal triggered protests with thousands of people in Spain and led the Council of Ministers to adopt today an extraordinary package of measures to respond to cases such as this and the growing difficulty in accessing a home.

Camps in protest for the crisis in housing in Spain extend to a dozen cities, said today the Union Association of Tenants and Tenants, which promotes these initiatives.

The largest mobilization is in Madrid, in the Porta do Sol square, where hundreds of people are installed in nearly 400 tents since Saturday night.

The protests about the housing crisis have taken place last week in several cities of Spain, with a special dimension in Madrid, after the eviction by the police of Maricarmen Abascal last Wednesday.

Maricarmen Abascal left home taken by firemen on a stretcher, after hours of a police operation that forced hundreds of people to block access to the elderly woman’s apartment.

The eviction, broadcast live by Spanish televisions, was translated into “images of shame”, which went around the world with “something that should never have been seen”, said today at a press conference in Madrid, at the Porta do Sol, a spokesman for the Union of tenants and tenants, Valeria Racu and lawyer Beatriz Duro.

“ But they lit a flame that will no longer stop,” said Valeria Racu, who said there have been 50 demonstrations since last week in Spain and there are currently camps for housing in a dozen cities.

The Union of Inquiries and Inquiries stressed today that the “first victory” with these mobilizations was conquered on Monday evening, with a pre-agreement reached with the company that owns the apartment of Maricarmen Abascal, which allows the return to the elderly.

Lawyer Beatriz Duro stressed that it was the company that requested the meeting and proposed an agreement, but it spent years without any dialogue, refusing to hear proposals or negotiate.

The agreement reached on Monday evening among the family members of Maricarmen Abascal, the lawyer of the elderly, the Tenants and Tenants Union and the company Urbagestión Desarrollo and Inversión SL provides for the return to the apartment of the woman evicted against the payment of an income that does not exceed 30% its net income (a pension of about 1,400 euros).

According to those involved in the negotiation, Maricarmen Abascal will continue to pay an income similar to that he paid until evicted (500 euros) and will sign an eight-year lease.