“I am in the Gregorio Marañón and, from here, I want to thank all the people who have been with me, accompanying me in this stage of my life to be able to defend my house,” says Maricarmen in a video recorded and broadcast on their social networks by the Madrid Tenants Union from this Madrid hospital, where the 87-year-old woman has been admitted since she was evicted from her home in the Retiro neighborhood last Wednesday, despite the protests. of 400 people and all attempts to stop the eviction. With a voice broken by emotion, lying on the articulated bed and wearing the hospital's nightgown, the woman continues: "I have not managed to defend my house, but I have fought so that others learn to fight for theirs." They are the first words and images of Maricarmen, 87, since the day of her eviction. The first night away from home he already spent in the hospital, suffering from severe stress and exhaustion.
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