Thousands of people, 20,000 according to provisional figures from the Government Delegation, marched through Madrid on Thursday from Puerta del Sol to the former home of Maricarmen Abascal, an 87-year-old woman who died 24 hours earlier and whose eviction triggered the citizen mobilization over the housing crisis.

The march was called by the Madrid Tenants Union, one of the organizations behind the Sol encampment protesting the housing crisis. It headed to the house where Abascal lived for 70 years, about four kilometers away on Calle Alcalde Sáinz de Baranda.

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A wreath placed at the corner of Puerta de Alcalá and Puerta del Sol, where the march began, carried a message: “To Maricarmen, dead in the line of duty. In defense of her dignity. Now Maricamen is in a place even better than her home, one that the henchmen of money will never be able to buy nor evict those who have been united with her in the struggle for justice and the common good.”

Gatherings in memory of the deceased were also held in Zaragoza, Seville, Córdoba, Granada and Almería, organized around the encampments and attended by hundreds of people.

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Participants carried banners reading “Rentism kills” and chanted “They are not deaths, they are murders” and “We will not tolerate one more eviction.” The march continued to grow as it moved away from Puerta del Sol, where candles, flowers and messages in memory of Maricarmen had been left throughout the day at Kilometer Zero.

As the demonstrators passed Plaza de Cibeles, the seat of Madrid City Hall, they observed a minute of silence.

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