The key facts

  • OkDiario, citing the register, claims Maricarmen was a director of Jinur S.A. from 1 July 1994 and deputy secretary until 1995
  • The identification is based on her name and birth year of 1938; there is no data on her actual activities or share ownership
  • The eviction on 23 September 2025 was carried out under a Supreme Court ruling in favour of the management company Urbagestión; Maricarmen died on 7 October in hospital

OkDiario's claim about work at the company

The Spanish conservative outlet OkDiario published an unverified report according to which 87-year-old Maricarmen, whose eviction from an apartment in Madrid sparked a wave of protests across the country, served on the board of a company that invested in real estate in the 1990s. The woman's circle did not respond to the publication. The outlet cites an extract from the companies register and her identity card. According to these documents, María del Carmen Abacal Martín was appointed director of the company Jinur S.A. on 1 July 1994 and held the post of deputy secretary until her resignation was accepted by the board a year later. The identification is based on her name and year of birth — 1938, which corresponds to the age of 87 at the time of the eviction.

Details about the companies and the contradiction with the El País interview

Jinur's statutory purpose was real estate investment for subsequent renting out. The company shared an address on Pradillo street in Madrid with Fieba S.A., from which, according to OkDiario, it and three other directors came; the outlet also claims that Maricarmen was the sole director of Fieba for several years. At the same time, the article cites a 1982 announcement in the Official State Gazette (BOE) about a company engaged in 'real estate investment' and then interprets it as a real estate agency. There is no trace of her day-to-day activities: the report does not explain what she did as deputy secretary and does not claim that she owned shares or real estate. OkDiario uses this data to challenge the account that, according to the outlet's attribution of a 2024 interview with El País, she gave: that she worked as secretary of the board of a pharmaceutical company. According to OkDiario, none of the companies checked has such a statutory line of business; she may have worked at some other company, but the article does not consider this.

The outlet's reputation

OkDiario is a conservative outlet founded in 2015 by the former El Mundo director Eduardo Inda. Other media outlets have accused it of manipulating news to create scandals. Last year, a court ordered Inda to pay Pablo Iglesias 18,000 euros for publishing false claims and spreading a forged bank document as evidence. According to a study by the University of Valencia, in November 2017 OkDiario was the lowest-rated media outlet in Spain while remaining one of the most widely read.

The facts of the eviction and death

These publications do not change the essence of what happened. In 1956, Maricarmen's parents signed an old rent-regulated lease for the apartment on Sáinz de Baranda street; the apartment passed to her in 2005 after her mother's death. The eviction was carried out on 23 September on the fourth attempt, amid protests across Spain. It was preceded by a legal battle with Urbagestión, the company managing the apartment, which went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in the company's favour in 2024. Maricarmen died on 7 October at the Gregorio Marañón hospital, where she had been since the eviction. Despite the agreement that she would be allowed to return home, she never managed to open the door of her home again.