Tens of thousands march in Madrid to mourn pensioner whose eviction sparked housing protests

Tens of thousands of protesters joined a march in Madrid Thursday to mark the death of 87-year-old retiree Maricarmen Abascal, whose eviction from her apartment in the Spanish capital in September sparked a wave of housing protests that prompted the...

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Tens of thousands march in Madrid to mourn pensioner whose eviction sparked housing protests

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