Police use teargas on protesters as disabled woman, 87, evicted from Madrid home
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What happened
Housing rights campaigners decry landlord’s ‘barbaric behaviour’ after apartment Maricarmen had lived in for 71 years was bought by a developer There were violent scenes in Madrid on Wednesday as riot police fought with protesters trying to prevent the eviction of a disabled 87-year-old woman from her apartment in the El Retiro district of the city. Hundreds of protesters had gathered, many of them overnight, in an…
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