Spain housing protest figure, 87, dies two weeks after eviction

Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her longtime Madrid home sparked housing protests across Spain, died on Wednesday.She died at a Madrid hospital, where she had remained since her September 23 eviction, according to a joint statement from the Madrid tenants’ union, her family and her lawyer, reported by Spanish media.“Although a historic agreement was reached that would have allowed her to return to her home, this solution came too late,” the statement…