Emotions run high as eviction leads to protest in northern Spain

June 27, 2012, MSNBC (Photos removed from MSMBC Website)

Riot police try to arrest members of the "Stop Deshaucios," Stop
Evictions, social movement during a protest to prevent an eviction in
Oviedo, northern Spain on June 27, 2012.

Protesters tried to prevent the eviction of an Ecuadorian family
unable to maintain its mortgage payments in Oviedo, northern Spain.
Jorge Cordero, his wife Patricia and five-month-old daughter Amanda
were evicted because they could not keep up mortgage payments to the
Cajastur bank. Seventeen people locked themselves in the apartment
with the owner and around 200 people gathered outside to try and stop
the eviction. Jorge's wife and baby daughter were not present in the
apartment during the eviction. Twenty people were arrested. The plight
of over one million Spanish people facing a crippling mortgage debt is
increasingly attracting public support as an anti-eviction movement
places pressure on politicians to act.

Activists from the "Stop Deshaucios," Stop Evictions, social movement
throw buckets of water from a balcony to prevent police entry during a
forced eviction.

Riot police take cover from water thrown from balconies by protesters of
an anti-eviction social movement.

Spanish riot police restrain a member of the "Stop Deshaucios," Stop
Evictions, social movement during a protest to prevent an eviction in
Oviedo.