A woman named Maricarmen has avoided eviction from her home after a legal battle that reached Spain's Supreme Court, according to La Vanguardia. The case traces back to a rental agreement dating from 1956, the newspaper reports.
The dispute centred on the Retiro district of Madrid, where the eviction had been scheduled. La Vanguardia describes the process as a long judicial journey that ended with the Supreme Court halting the removal.
The case has drawn wider attention. EL PAÍS reported that Maricarmen, speaking from a hospital, encouraged people to join a demonstration against evictions held in Madrid on Saturday afternoon. El Mundo reported that in the same message she urged Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to take what she called a first step toward ending the system.
The eviction also prompted criticism from police unions, according to ABC, which reported that union representatives accused the government of hypocrisy over the Retiro case. Separately, El Norte de Castilla reported that a video showing a police officer pushing a young woman in Valladolid spread widely online.
The developments place the Retiro case within a broader national debate over housing and evictions in Spain. What happens next will depend on how the Supreme Court's intervention is applied and whether the political pressure around the case continues.