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Amaya Egaña, aged 53 had been pushed too far. Moments before she was to have been evicted from her 4th floor apartment in Bilbao. She clambered over the balcony railing and jumped to her death.
The police on the scene said she died on impact. It’s the second suicide in Spain in a matter of weeks. A man facing eviction in Granada was found hanging in his home. A local judge called to the scene said the law on evictions must be changed. We cannot be in situations where, because of an economic problem, we end up in a crisis like this, which is not the first time it has happened with such tragic results as this one.
Outside Amaya’s apartment, local residents gathered to remember a friend and a neighbour and protest at the continuing evictions. They need to stop rescuing the banks and start rescuing people because we are heading nowhere and the loan costs must have a limit.
The people of Bilbao were shocked but above all bitterly angry at her death.
The banks are influencing all this, they are the ones making people do these things, to jump, commit suicide. It’s the banks’ fault and the government for not having stopped them.
In a few years we’ll be killing each other and as a man said yesterday that’s not going to be the end. Today it was that woman, tomorrow perhaps is my turn.
The Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, reacting to the news of this latest suicide, said he would seek to put a temporary end to evictions for the most vulnerable.
Peter Sharp Al Jazeera
The government has to take measures that bankers are acting only for their own convenience, regardless of psychological damage to people. Spain is being very badly to Europe for this. They should make a law for people who can not possibly pay the mortgage. Another option is to help people psychologically candidate for eviction and be aware of them.
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