According to EL PAÍS, Maricarmen died at Madrid’s Hospital Gregorio Marañón. The same newspaper wrote that her death was confirmed in a statement, although the available information does not specify who issued it.
The news comes after a personal ordeal linked to evictions. ANSA reports that Maricarmen died in the hospital where she had been admitted after being evicted from her home.
Her name was associated with the mobilization for the right to housing. EL PAÍS, ANSA and Euronews describe her, respectively, as a woman who helped launch the fight against evictions, as a face of the protests and as a symbol of housing movements in Spain.
Euronews also reports that, over the previous decade, Maricarmen had faced four eviction attempts. The same source writes that, in a final message from her hospital bed, she urged demonstrators: “Fight!”
The reports therefore agree in linking her figure to the history of Spain’s protests for the right to housing, while describing the story from different angles: the circumstances of a person affected by eviction and the symbolic significance she acquired in the mobilizations.
Maricarmen’s death was reported on October 7, while the available sources focus their accounts on her age, her hospitalization and the role attributed to her in protests against evictions.