Maricarmen Abascal dies Before returning home

Oct 7

RTVE breaks the news, confirmed by the Tenants' Union, that 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal died that afternoon at Madrid's Gregorio Marañón hospital. Claudia Poyato recounts her two-week admission after eviction and the unrealized agreement to return home. The complete account retains her earlier appeal to the Sol campers, her decades in the home and the eviction's public impact. José Muela reports visits, deteriorating health and the absence of a doctors' statement or funeral details. Irene Lasso describes shock and grief at the continuing Sol camp and participants' promises to remain; their accusations that eviction and rentierism caused her death are attributed. Ángel Víctor Torres expresses condolences and links the case to the housing-rights debate. The broadcast establishes death and unfulfilled return, not a medically established cause.

The tenants' association announces the death of eighty-seven-year-old Mari Carmen Abascal, whose Madrid eviction had sparked nationwide housing protests. Tagesthemen says she could no longer pay sharply increased rent after seventy years in the apartment and recalls the resulting tenant-protection demands. The record dates the announcement, not an externally inferred time of death. RTVE's October 7 breaking account, confirmed by the Tenants' Union, reports that Maricarmen died that afternoon at Madrid's Gregorio Marañón hospital after two weeks of hospitalization following her eviction. The negotiated return home was never realized. Muela reports deteriorating health but no doctors' statement, medical cause or funeral details. Sol campers grieve and pledge to remain. At the joint strike press conference the Tenants' Union blames speculation and rentierism; those causal accusations are attributed rather than established medical findings. TV Brasil's October 7 notice also says Maricarmen died that day in Madrid and had been hospitalized since eviction after roughly seventy years at home. This is the programme's stated chronology; it does not independently establish a medical cause or exact death time.